Word: heck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heck is that?" Murphy asked of Reese. "We're still asking ourselves that...
...heck is that?" Murphy asked ofReese. "We're still asking ourselves that...
Most professional investors, including me, scorned index funds for years. I used to think, heck, if I just picked the 400 best of the 500, I could do better. It hasn't played out that way. Any investor who sought value among smaller stocks has seen his returns lag badly. The Russell 2000, an index of small-cap stocks, has fallen about 20% so far this year, and trailed the S&P 500 nearly 11 percentage points...
...still bristles with 7,000 strategic nuclear warheads but whose economy scarcely rivals that of the Netherlands and accounts for less than 1% of U.S. exports. Investors treated Monday's market action as another of those "dips" in which they had been taught to buy stocks on the cheap. Heck, it wasn't even as big as the one-day dip last Oct. 27, and the market had shrugged that one off within six weeks before powering to new highs and greater glory...
...today that ideal of common public education is being subverted from within, as principals like Dinzle Adams, who heads Halls High School in Knoxville, Tenn., can attest. "We do a heck of a job with our high achievers and a good job with special-needs students," he says, "and it's almost like reverse discrimination against the average...