High-yield outperformed stocks in 6 out of those 8 years, with a mean return of 3.88% versus -0.92% for equities.

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Over past crises, the duration of the period of rising unemployment averaged nearly five years, with a mean increase in the unemployment rate of seven percentage points, which would bring the U.S. to double digits.

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For Sotherton this entails a 50% pay cut, although her years at the top mean she remains a favourite with event organisers and sponsors.

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Germans still fret about moral hazard: a bail-out would mean that Greece gets away with years of irresponsible fiscal policy and could set a bad precedent for other euro delinquents.

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They found that, with a mean follow-up of 6.5 years, allocation to aspirin reduced risk of cancer with distant metastasis by 36%, risk of adencarcioma (common solid cancers including colon, lung, and prostate cancers) by 46%, and of other solid cancers (eg bladder, kidney) by 18%.

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Does always being at the end of the alphabet mean that eventually, with years of having to wait, wait, wait, a person will be so pent-up that they will not be able to master the art of delayed gratification, once it truly matters as an adult?

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Kennedy's interest in the seat could mean the continuation of a family legacy in the Senate that began 56 years ago with the election of her father as the then-junior senator from Massachusetts.

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Match that with capital, and those extra years in the workforce could mean significant gains in economic output, perhaps a trillion dollars a year.

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In particular, providing the IBRC with a bond that could be used to source ECB funding at the MRO rate would mean 40 years of paying low interest rates on this debt.

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