Word: avoiding
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Instead, if you're outdoor-bound in a tick-infested area this season, you would be well advised to take special precautions: dose yourself with a tick repellent, wear long sleeves and pants (with cuffs tucked stylishly under your socks) and avoid high grass. If a close examination of personal nooks and crannies afterward reveals any suspect pinhead-size specks, remove them gently with tweezers...
...much worse. Even the mutual-fund industry, arguably the biggest beneficiary of perpetual bullishness, is preaching caution. At the industry's recent annual conference, which I attended, the theme was "building investor knowledge." The effort smacks of self-interest; the subtitle might well have been "how fund companies can avoid blame when the bubble bursts." But the basic message--that the market cannot keep going straight up--is a good one. Any stocks or stock funds that you can't hold through a 2000-point Dow slide you should sell...
...people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...
...foreign investors, burned by losses in Asia, are taking their money and heading for the exits. Trying desperately to hold on to them and avoid devaluing the ruble, the central bank last week upped its interest rate to 150%. Some experts are talking about a meltdown, but it's more like a drought. Russia's cash flow has dried...
Instead of offering a generous new system of aid, an 80 percent yield may mean Harvard can avoid sweeping changes because "shouting distance" seems--at least for the moment--close enough...