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Otherwise, steer clear. My guess is that a lot of people, fleeing a safe 4% return, will find ways to lose 40%. (In the '70s it wasn't low interest rates but high tax rates that drove sensible people to do silly things. Desperate to avoid forking over 70% in taxes, they lost 100% in limited-partnership tax- shelter deals instead...
...former top department official: Lance Wilson, once executive assistant to ex-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce. Citing Wilson on 24 counts of fraud, conspiracy and false statements, a federal grand jury charged him with conspiring, after he left HUD for an investment firm, to steer $46 million in grants intended for poor urban areas to three housing projects developed by his business partner, Texan Leonard Briscoe...
These prenatal fluctuations may also steer boys toward more rambunctious behavior than girls. June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, in a pioneering study of eight pairs of brothers and 17 pairs of sisters ages 6 to 18 uncovered a complex interplay between hormones and aggression. As a group, the young males gave more belligerent answers than did the females on a multiple-choice test in which they had to imagine their response to stressful situations. But siblings who had been exposed in utero to synthetic antimiscarriage hormones that mimic...
...shift has an unmistakable back-to-the-future quality about it. During Bush's first two years in office, his aides sheltered the free-market flame by batting away several internal proposals to put federal money on the line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief economic adviser Michael Boskin and Budget Director Richard Darman, the White House argued that market forces, rather than government, could best determine which...
...some people choose to live in ethnic neighborhoods, and why do others avoid them? Why do some Harvard students join organized minority groups, and why do others steer clear...