The weakness of this gauge, though, is that market cap is only loosely related to underlying property values.

FORBES: They Spend Your Money

The company invests the funds in one or more bond portfolios, but the return is only loosely related to the performance of the bonds.

FORBES: Gotcha! A Hard Look The Annuity Business

Distorting your opponent's record is easy: congressmen often have to vote yes or no to omnibus bills with hundreds of loosely-related provisions, so they can all be portrayed as having backed a provision that, on its own, they would have shunned.

ECONOMIST: The mid-term mud starts to fly

Espionage has been loosely described as a form of treason and has references to the crime of gathering, transmitting or losing information related to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.

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