Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...settlement in virgin lands, politicians, who see settlers as voters, have encouraged Brazil's 10 million landless poor to migrate into the interior, torching forest as they go. But the rain forest is not good agricultural land, and many of the farmers sell out to cattle ranchers. The only reason enormous stretches of the forest did not burn down in 1998 was that paved roads did not yet penetrate the most fragile areas...
...some reason, the market's constant stream of worries takes on added significance in the fall. It may be that some investors simply lose interest over the summer and come back after Labor Day ready to scrutinize everything. Fall is also a time when mutual-fund managers sell losers to lock in tax benefits...
Taxes, of course, are the big reason. If you never sell, you'll never owe Uncle Sam a dime of your gains in your lifetime. The futility of timing the market's peaks and valleys is also an issue. Can you really pick good exit and entry points? Probably not well enough to make...
...serves as Governor Bush's top media adviser. Also because YVETTE LOZANO, the Maverick employee who was captured by a post-office surveillance camera mailing a package on the same day the videotape and briefing book were mailed, is also a former Democrat. But Bush aides believe the real reason FBI investigators have continued to focus on McKinnon, Lozano and the production house is because the briefing book that was sent to Gore pal TOM DOWNEY in Washington was a copy of the one that belonged to McKinnon. Although the FBI has told him he is not a target...
...George W. Bush and Al Gore run through their final dress rehearsals for their final debate - perched on the edge of high stools, microphones pinned to their lapels - they're probably a little nervous. And with some reason: Bush shoulders newly heightened expectations, while Gore must very publicly resurrect a campaign that has been treading water over the past two weeks...