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Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.

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Buy Move Worry

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

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Enemy Hands Lives

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

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TechnologyBoth Growth

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism – can anyone ever distinguish the two? – leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

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Anyone Beautiful Story

Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.

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Continue Growing Rise

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected – and feared – figures in the entertainment industry.

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Among Industry Respected

Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.

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Fast Grow Individual

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

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Although Debt Higher

Over the years, I’ve spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

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TimeAmong Spent

Plumbing is usually boring.

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Boring Plumbing

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor – or for that matter, arch sarcasm – by chief executives.

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Chief Matter Meetings

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

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SportsTechnologyExciting

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

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Companies General Prefer

Most unfortunately, Enron’s plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

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Cost Court Employees

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don’t give their secrets to journalists for free.

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Free Past Start
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