In 1990, when Morris Lapidus was 88 and thinking of retiring, and a bit depressed that his life's work had gone unnoticed, he was suddenly discovered in Europe.

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Investors have shown a bit of interest, but the stocks remain depressed by historical measures.

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Across the board, about 23% of the mothers in the study were depressed, which is quite a bit higher than the rate of depression in the general public (which is about 6.7%, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health).

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These comparisons are a bit of apples to oranges since the iPhone 4S was launched in early October 2011 (which depressed the September 2011 quarter results) and the iPhone 5 was available in September.

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While their moves to pare back before the bailout may have saved shareholders a bit of money, mutual funds that made bets on the troubled firms still suffered in selling the greatly depressed shares.

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