Their efforts to sell costly actively-managed mutual funds have generated a lot of trash talk about low-cost index funds.
"The easiest thing to talk about is the low-hanging fruit, which is the cost-cutting, " says SooAnn Roberts, an analyst at Kaufman Brothers.
And the stock market has surged up 12% just since its August low when talk of another round of quantitative easing began.
General Motors' situation is particularly noteworthy, since its stock recently hit a 50-year low amid increased talk of bankruptcy.
Nevertheless, the food industry is abuzz with talk about producers preparing various low-carb products to substitute for items on the Atkins blacklist.
Last March, when he fired Tavis Smiley, the host of a low-rated talk show, protesters blamed the move on the new "white" owners at Viacom.
General Motors' (nyse: GM - news - people ) situation is particularly noteworthy, since its stock recently hit a 50-year low amid increased talk of bankruptcy.
Talk about the bigotry of low expectations.
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But what he seemed most excited to talk about was technology--low, high or otherwise.
How do they expect us to drink our latte, surf CNN, talk to our next of kin, buy low, sell high and concentrate on where we're going?
The good news for Clearwire was the display of a chart that showed smaller footprint cell sites that would include base station cards for a multiplicity of services including: LTE (yes, long term evolution), WIMAX, some successor concept that would continue to use the IDEN spectrum in the low bands to keep the push to talk business users happy, and CDMA as well.
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It embarrasses me to hear people talk this way I think I'll be a low-key sort of elf.
While Peyroux prefers to keep a fairly low profile, she took the time to talk to CNN about stripping down to the bare bones on her newest album.
Each node contained a small processor, a sensor and a low-powered radio with just enough power to talk to adjacent nodes and the network was just smart enough to reconfigure itself to reroute data whenever one node got damaged.
Unexpectedly low English GCSE results which have led some teachers to talk of resignation do not make sense, a Suffolk head teacher has said.
"I was shocked with talk about us under-performing against Australia as we defended a low total of 205 against the world champions until the final ball, " said Younus last week.
He will talk much of what he calls the "squeezed middle", the low and middle-income families feeling the pain of lower living standards and job insecurity as the economy stagnates.
Narayen, Chizen's low-key successor, isn't having any of that talk.
The talk includes long-term planning, creating an appropriate asset allocation, and the selection of low-cost index funds and ETFs.
"When the Tories talk about aspiration, they mean looking after their friends at the top, whilst people on low and middle incomes can go whistle, " he said.
While Apple and Palm talk up the legibility of screens on their diminutive devices, the nano and z22 have relatively low resolution when compared with more expensive models.
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"The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste, " said Mr Gates during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology during which he confirmed the tie-up with Terrapower.
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