Word: explained
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...understand that it is necessary" to leave early. There is a new "powerful man, worthy of being President," he said, referring to Putin. The speech left the eerie impression of a despondent leader who had been persuaded, gently but firmly, that it was time to go. This would explain the defeated tone that at times crept into his speech--his apology to the Russian people for the hardships they had suffered during his rule; the admission that he had been wrong in thinking Russia could be transformed in one sweep from its "gray, stagnant, totalitarian past to a bright, rich...
...dotcoms and their Net-infrastructure brethren have proved immune to higher rates. How else can you explain the NASDAQ's 80% increase, the greatest uplift in any U.S. average's history, in light of the major interest-rate rises of 1999? Put simply, any Fed moves to tighten may set off a further stampede into the hottest stocks around...