Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stay invested mainly in stocks for higher returns so your money will last well into your retirement...
There are, of course, risks to putting the bulk of your retirement money in the market, such as the chance that stocks will stay down for five years. But there are also risks in holding low-yielding bonds and cash--chiefly the risk that you'll outlive your money. Also, most bond prices would be hit by any revival of inflation. Sticking with stocks is a gamble that financial planner Satovsky says is worth it "if you want to live to 100 and not go broke...
...Whereas she once wanted to colonize no less than one-seventh of the economy with her health-care plan, consider the role she played in this year's budget. Her fingerprints are all over dozens of small, shrewd programs. She was the driving force behind the tax credit for stay-at-home moms (per-person average: $178), the $50 million in grants to help children on Medicaid treat their asthma, and more money to train pediatricians in children's hospitals. She recently attended an event designed to inform women about the benefits of folic acid. While she no longer sits...
...Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor in chief of the leftist journal Commentary; after...
Some friends of mine returned from a stay in Provence last week, and I had to restrain myself from asking how the French are smelling these days. When I visited France in the past, I hasten to say, I hadn't found the odor of its citizens to be a matter of serious concern, but that was before I read in the New York Times that only 47% of them bathe every day. It's a figure that does, you must admit, give one pause...