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a: Stocks ~
b: stylishly-adorned coquettes
What: "The short answer is that picking quality stocks is a lot like appreciating quality women...
Many stocks are like stylishly-adorned coquettes, with their head-turning P/E ratios and their rollercoaster-like share price fluctuations."
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Writer: Andrew Vanburen
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Date: Oct 24 2013 6:17 PM
# 4231 Critique Analogy
a: Bacteria ~
b: little DNA factories
What: "Bacteria are like little DNA factories," she explains. "You always need a supply of stock DNA to work with." Her job included growing colonies of bacteria, then purifying the DNA from it. The DNA was sometimes injected into the cells of mice to see how altering a gene affected their development, so Sunny had to tend large colonies of laboratory mice, a task that did not thrill her. "Lab mice are not very sweet," she says. "But I guess I can't blame them."
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Writer: Sunny Hwang
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Date: Oct 25 2013 5:07 PM
# 4286 Critique Analogy
a: house boat ~
b: a giant sail
What:
"A house boat is like a giant sail due to its boxy shape and so we were beginning to be pushed along even with the anchor down! In the pitch black you cannot see anything. Within a few minutes it felt as if our anchor had broken off so grabbing my flashlight I had to see what happened. Checking overboard it became clear that the anchor was still there but we were being driven along by the wind as if there was no anchor!"
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Writer: Matt Sullivan
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Date: Feb 25 2015 5:05 PM
# 7385 Critique Analogy
