Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stanford and I have had discussions and it maymove toward an actual offer," she says, though sheadds that no offer has been made...
...abandoned its poorest citizens. He evoked for his audience the much-vaunted 40 million working Americans who don't have health insurance, along with the millions of schoolchildren subsisting on a sub-par education, in an era when we are faced with not only a booming economy but an actual budget surplus, an era when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate him. But the crux of Cuomo...
...Remarkably, Harvard has not gotten around to renovating Widener, though it has overhauled almost every other building in the Yard. The steel that holds it together is still peppered with rivets. The lights have actual bulbs, not the fluorescent tubes we called "death-rays" in high school. And of course, Widener has everything you could ever need for writing a paper--the books reek (literally) of knowledge (figuratively...
...Faculty even began their presentation, the editor of the Dudley House Review announced that those students who didn't get into a class could apply to an extracurricular workshop. Unfortunately, her announcement set the tone of the meeting by revealing just how few spaces were available in the actual program...
...change the intrinsic value. But it does make the stock more affordable for small investors, who like to buy in round lots of, say, 100 shares. That's one reason stocks that split have historically got about a 5% lift between the date of the announcement and the actual split. Lately, though, the pop has been more explosive. EBay rose a quick 37%; Xerox, 10%; Microsoft, 12%. People now pay for services that alert them via pager or e-mail whenever a split is announced, so they can quickly buy the stock. It's an example of lemmings running amuck...