Bear with me because it takes a little while to pull all the threads together, but it's worth it, I promise.
That means Microsoft customers will generally react to damage to their systems and bottom line with a grin-and-bear-it attitude, because it's easier to stick with what you have than rip out the works and start over.
And it seems like the grown-up thing to do would be to come to terms with it, grin and bear it, and make the best of the relationship.
State officials will intervene if there is a human-bear situation, with the aim of frightening the bear away or capturing it.
With jobless and interest rates still low, it takes a dedicated bear to stick with a gloomy bet.
The news comes as brokerage firms post mixed results, with Bear Stearns announcing Thursday that it came short Wall Street's expectations (See "Fixed Income Bowls Over Bear"), as did Morgan Stanley on Wednesday (See "Morgan Stanley Can't Keep Up").
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The brokers may have been pledged collateral against their hedge-fund loans but, as Merrill Lynch recently discovered in its dealings with two Bear Stearns hedge funds, it may not be possible to sell that collateral for anything like the current market price.
"Even the two-thousandth time you deal with a bear, you have to treat it like it's the first time, " his assistant, Philippe, says.
The stock lagged in the prior bull market and fell fully with the market in the bear, so it's cheap now.
Look at how that 50-day moving average is tracing out a rounded top pattern as it heads for a bear cross with the 200-day.
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Given that retirees over this decade and longer are confronting the conditions of a secular bear market, it is important to start with a reasonable expectation about future returns and market conditions, then to apply appropriate investment strategies and approaches.
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The burden should not be borne by seniors or folks with disabilities or the folks who can bear it least.
The role, which the Fed rehearsed with its rescue of Bear Stearns, would allow it to hunt anywhere for systemic risk, including among the entangled roots of hedge funds and investment banks.
It showed polar bear cubs in a den with their mother, with many people assuming the young animals were born and filmed in the Arctic.
Ironically, says a senior banker with the firm, it might take a bear market to decide the issue for Lazard and to dictate whether the bank will have an independent future.
She considered herself a lifer, believing she would be with Bear Stearns forever (of course, that was before it imploded).
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The policeman said the bear was about 7ft (2m) away when he killed it with a single round.
That chain has been broken by MF (it really broke back in 2008 with Lehman, Bear Stearns, and AIG, but trillions of dollars temporarily delayed its continuing collapse).
Bear has been notching record earnings along with fellow investment banks, but it is dwarfed in size by peers Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and half the size of its closest rival, Lehman Brothers.
Bear has been notching record earnings along with fellow investment banks, but it is dwarfed in size by peers Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) and Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and half the size of its closest rival, Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ).
It then plunged with the final legs down of the bear market in stocks as the recession took hold.
Despite the widespread solidarity with the woman in this case, it is pertinent to bear in mind that conservative opinion holds sway in wide swathes of the Indian hinterland.
For some this proves that Italy is an oversize Greece: a country with a debt burden that is too heavy for it to bear and, unlike Greece, for others to help shoulder.
Back to where I originally met Grover and Big Bird and Fozzie Bear, my kids loved Sesame Street because it was spirited and filled with age-appropriate humor, along with delightful music and story telling.
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Depending on where you live and whether you are subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (which determines whether you bear the full brunt of your state tax bill or can share it with Uncle Sam), the state tax penalty could easily be worth 35 to 50 basis points.
This is a very wonky comment, but it is derived from several years of research, so please bear with me.
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This year it went further and gave guarantees to Bear Stearns, an investment bank with no retail depositors.
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