But the main reason for ratcheting European exposure upward is less about Europe's potential than its prices: its stocks have become more attractive precisely because they have been beaten down so badly.
Why? Green: If you're a value buyer, looking for cheap, out-of-favor investments, and you have a little bit of patience, it's hard to pass up emerging markets precisely because they've been beaten down so badly the last few years.
They evoke a landscape, mental and otherwise, that while a little wintry and severe, is appealing precisely because it's so off the beaten track.
Meanwhile in League Two, eight of the 18 teams in action scored precisely two goals and only one scored one – Luton, beaten at the death by a 96th-minute Barnet penalty.
Another point of contention concerns precisely how, and by what means, the individual was beaten.
While Berkshire stock has beaten the market for decades, outsiders cannot calculate precisely the performance of the company's stock portfolio because S.E.C. filings do not indicate when, or at what price, each stock was bought.
That's what Hanslick meant about being beaten up by two intelligent people, and it's precisely the idea that Thomas Adès sends up in his piece, Brahms, for baritone and orchestra, setting a poem by Alfred Brendel.
More precisely, these young ones share their morning meal because their mothers, though beaten and beaten down, have taken a step toward reclaiming their lives: They have sought respite at the Sojourn battered women's shelter, one of the first such refuges to open in Los Angeles County and a leading force on the domestic-abuse front.
He was beaten by the penultimate ball but the final delivery was planted precisely over extra cover once more before Jordan tucked his bat under his arm and marched off.
More precisely, frustrated investors should catch some of the "falling stars" that have been beaten down but whose fundamentals remain attractive.
The movie was a hit last year precisely because of the unsettling subject matter: unarmed protesters and innocent bystanders are shot in the streets or sadistically beaten in police stations.
