Since most investors, concerned about their pensions and future living standards, are unwilling to run such risks, they are learning to settle for lower returns (and having to save more) than they had assumed over the past decade or so.
Crittendon decided to retire in December, four months short of thirty years; his deputy, Eric Messick, replaced him as the prison's spokesman, but the innumerable other duties that Crittendon had assumed over the years were absorbed — or sloughed off — by the system.
For especially in a relativist society such as the democratic state professes itself, it is not what the religious or secular believe that is alienating, it is the degree to which the religious or secular retain the authoritarian and inflexible character that the religions had assumed over the centuries of their imperial histories.
The south revolted against the autocratic cronyism of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former leader of North Yemen, who had assumed over-all control after the merger.
The defunct Kaiser plan is small relative to some of the pension plans the government has assumed over the last two years.
The victory of Mr. Mujica, 74, solidified the control the Broad Front has assumed over Uruguayan politics since the current president, Tabaré Vázquez, was elected in 2004.
But Sir Deryck's success at a hodgepodge of responsibilities he has assumed over the last few years brought him back into Mr. Weill's favor.
In that multistranded 2007 film, Mr. Haynes used different actors, men and women, black and white, to represent Bob Dylan or, rather, the multiple identities (folkie, mythmaker, rocker) that this shape-shifting singer has assumed over his career.
Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader — including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing — his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate.
Like the famous "Banquet Rousseau," in 1908, at which Picasso and his friends paid homage to Le Douanier Rousseau, the Murphys' péniche party has assumed over the years a sort of legendary aura, so that people who may or may not have been there give vivid and conflicting descriptions of the event.
But as Anthony Grafton has pointed out on this blog before, the level of control Google has assumed over such a massive digital library is more worrisome in the long-term — not only because of what we are or are not allowed to see, but also because of how our physical libraries will fare, and how punctilious Google will be with its mistakes.
