Word: slug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore catcher Dane Sardinha bats .374 with 11 home runs and 56 RBI and has collected 85 hits, second-best in the conference. As a team, the Waves slug .494 to the Crimson's .426, and bat .326 to Harvard...
...favor for a year or longer. The biggest cyclical names, like Caterpillar, International Paper and DuPont, have already had huge moves but probably still have room to run. Consider also an investment in a Wilshire 5000 or Russell 2000 stock-index fund. Both have a heavy slug of small- and middle-size basic-industry companies, which tend to rally as a group on the heels of the bigger names...
...dealership any more than necessary would appall me. And while I love my bicycle--it's easier than walking, especially downhill--and can appreciate how much better it would be if I had a little motorized help, I ask myself, Why bother with pedals at all? No, what this slug needs for his first foray into environmentally correct transportation is an electric scooter...
Meanwhile, there are steps you can take. For starters, don't buy more company stock if you're getting a healthy slug of it from the boss. If you exercise stock options, diversify immediately. Remember, your most valuable asset--your career--is also tied to the health of your firm. If you're over age 55, your employer may allow you to sell some of its stock held in your 401(k), so be sure to ask. In your taxable accounts, lean toward diversified mutual funds, or individual stocks in at least six industries--and avoid the one in which...
...chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced to great fanfare that they had done just that, building a bench-top fusion percolator made up of two electrodes and a slug of heavy water. But Pons and Fleischmann were vague about how their "cold fusion" reactor worked, and when other scientists tried to duplicate the pair's results, they got mostly cold water for their trouble...