Word: solider
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...course, as is always the case with the stock market, a company's past performance, magnificent though it may be, doesn't necessarily indicate what's going to happen in the future. In fact, today's chart-toppers are often tomorrow's laggards. Still, with a decade of solid returns already on the books, maybe there's more reason than there usually is to believe that these companies have staying power...
...reasons foreign investment in Brazil has risen so significantly over the last few years is that Brazilian law is relatively solid. Unlike neighbors Venezuela or Bolivia, for example, foreign companies in Brazil do not fear that the goalposts will be moved in the middle of the game or that powerful interests will tear up agreements. Brazilian lawyers said Sean Goldman's stepfather, João Lins e Silva, has diligently followed due process in his attempt to retain custody of his late wife's son. (She died in childbirth earlier this year.) But there is still a sense that...
...drug conflicts have pushed up the Honduran murder rate, which hit 53 per 100,000 last year - one of the worst rates in the world. Few homicides are solved. Police do not have solid leads on Gonzalez's killers, who escaped on their motorcycle. Officials said they had offered the drug czar bodyguards, but he turned them down. "I would say to him, 'Are you not going to have security?'," his wife Leslie Portillo said at his funeral. "He replied to me, 'My security is God walking beside...
...putting a lid on the $65 billion spent annually on holiday gifts, says Professor Joel Waldfogel of the Wharton School. Waldfogel, the author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays, insists his theory is solid economics, not bah, humbug. "As an institution for 'allocating resources' (getting stuff to the right people), holiday giving is a complete loser." If you spend $50 on yourself, he explains, you'll get something worth $50 to you. But if your Aunt Bernice buys you a $50 Christmas gift, she's likely to buy something that's worth nothing...
When Jonathan S. Brito ’10 approaches you in his DHAs, the first word that comes to mind is “jock.” With a solid frame and confident walk, Brito looks more likely to spend his day carbo-loading for a track and field meet than working through abstract math problem sets in the library. Ask him to explain “A Universal Degree Bound for Rings of Invariants of n Point Configurations Modulo Torus Actions,” and that stereotype quickly disappears. But his understanding of the theorem shouldn?...