Word: actualizations
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...nearly every day, even just for two seconds, especially if there had been some incident--one more dead soldier in the news. Chris' Army reserve unit was a civil-affairs team, the ones who hand out medicine and rebuild schools and are supposed to stay a safe distance from actual combat. But somehow Chris had wound up leading convoys back and forth between Kuwait and Baghdad, and Betsy knew that was a much more dangerous mission than normal. On June 30, he phoned Betsy from Iraq to tell her he was heading back to Kuwait. "I'll be there...
...Actual shares of stock are worth something even if the price goes down. But shares don't increase in value as fast as options when the price is rising. (If a stock goes from $50 to $60, it has increased in value by $10, or 20% before taxes. If you have an option to buy a share of that same stock at $40, when the stock goes from $50 to $60, the value of the option increases from $10 to $20, or 100% before taxes.) And shares cost more for the company to issue, so companies won't hand...
...nudged—and the courtroom’s large clock set forward to read 7 p.m. so that the taped first portion of the broadcast would appear to be live that evening—Dershowitz paced the courtroom floor a few minutes before the trial’s actual 2 p.m. start. Looking lost in intense thought at times and grinning boyishly at others, he set the tone for the afternoon and evening’s events: a very serious scrutiny of a recreational pastime, a prosecution for crimes against...
...People associated with the Harvard community believe that Harvard should make a difference in the community, that students’ coursework should intersect with actual engagement and with the problems of the world,” he said...
...able to sign more copies of the memoir than she—or Wordsworth Books, which was sponsoring the event and unloading hundreds of copies of the book at a makeshift checkout stand outside the hotel—had planned. Clinton originally agreed to sign 800 books, but the actual number exceeded that, according to a Wordsworth employee...