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However, detectives did not rule out that the body had been dumped prior to 2004.

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While rapid gains often leave investors nervous, and itching to dump their biggest winners, investors should stay the course.

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“I was feeling so in the dumps that I’d be choking on a line that I didn’t even want to say because if I say it, I’ll start crying,” he recalls.

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This leverage can amp up bullish bets while markets are rising, but it can quickly sour during moments of turmoil, forcing investors to dump holdings to satisfy lenders.

Only instead of regrouping in hell, as that old Marines saying goes, it’s in the oceans, where such compounds were dumped for decades.

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