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And while large cities like Detroit have been much in the news for spectacular failure, smaller cities and towns like Flint, Mich., and Port Clinton, Ohio, contain some of America's poorest and hardest-hit neighborhoods.
For starters, the spectacular outperformance by small stocks has come at a time when bonds — the market's most popular asset class by a wide margin since the global financial crisis struck in 2007 — are showing signs of stumbling.
"It will be a spectacular game and small details may decide it.
More importantly, his own stock picking performance has been spectacular: The Northern Small Cap Growth Fund, which he has managed since its Sept. 30, 1999, inception, returned an astounding 93.05% for its first 12 months.
Ms. Gotbaum, who started her job in 1994, a year after Ms. Futter joined the Natural History Museum, has been trying to do something spectacular on a smaller scale.
MATTHEW A. LEVITT, a former F.B.I. official and now a terrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, fears that Al Qaeda and other militant Islamic groups may shift away from spectacular operations to smaller scale suicide bombings.
