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Padilla, a typically staid legislator, then offered a modified riff of a lyric by rapper Ice Cube, who grew up in South Los Angeles.

But beyond the staid statecraft, the summit and sideline events featured plenty of nods to the host country's vibrant pop culture and history.

It’s an unusual move for a staid 60/40 fund, although Giroux notes that the loans’ floating rates mean that they bear relatively little interest-rate risk, as does the fund’s overall bond portfolio.

In finance, this goes by the staid name of a “rational bubble.”

It wasn’t too long ago that many investors thought Oracle Corp. was “a staid company on the wrong side of the cloud and AI transition story,” according to a Bernstein analyst.