Word: stack
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...Enterprise Growth and Clipper) are beating the market this year. On average, the group of 31 has returned just 12% a year for the past five years, vs. 18.3% for the S&P 500. The big-bet funds lag badly over three- and one-year periods too, though they stack up O.K. against the lower standard set by the average diversified stock fund...
...beautifully simple idea. Since sperm bearing a Y chromosome (the one that creates little boys) contains nearly 3 percent less DNA than its female X chromosome counterpart, why not sort sperm by its genetic weight -- and stack the deck for couples who want to choose the sex of their child? Easier said than done, of course. But that's precisely the technique that a Fairfax, Va., fertility center is set to reveal Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction. Based on the information released so far, this appears to be the most reliable gender-selection process ever developed...
...control. Hatch appeared on five networks in an hour, breaking the previous indoor record for Consecutive Appearances in a Single Day, held by William Ginsburg. The screen went dark in the Map Room, and almost immediately there was Hatch on NBC threatening, "I'm just going to blow my stack" if he hears another word against Starr. His stack gone, he moved over to CNN, where he threatened to blow his "cork" if the phrase "$40 million" (as in "$40 million investigation") was repeated again. On the air, he said he was "personally offended" by Clinton's attack...
...There's a job here for every man, woman and baby at the breast," says Pastor Daniel Stack of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church...
...former slave plantation in Louisiana), gushed with praise. "Where can I get a subscription to the Angolite?" asked Anne Heche about the prison's magazine. Warden BURL CAIN, left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack, found so much material there that he's now working on a film focusing on one of the inmates. He's also got a whole new crew of pen pals. "I'll ask one of them a question, and two weeks later I'll get a 10-page handwritten letter about...