Word: alanes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chairman Alan Greenspan showed few such signs of concern last week. As Wall Streeters reached for airsick bags, he calmly flew to Boston for a long-scheduled session with fellow bankers. Greenspan believes U.S. economic fundamentals are solid. Fed vice chairman Roger Ferguson told TIME, "The economy is cooling from its unsustainable pace of earlier this year, but recent data certainly don't suggest a dangerous slowdown...
Remember when you learned about King George III in elementary school? Well, you ain't heard nothing yet. Turns out the good king went mad shortly after the American Revolution, and his lapse into insanity and subsequent recovery form the basis of Alan Bennet's riotous comedy The Madness of George III, now playing on the Loeb Mainstage. A costume drama, a period farce and a history lesson (or at least a lesson in one of history's most amusing footnotes), Madness is sure to please...
...beat. Wednesday and Thursday's were the third and fourth highest-volume sessions in NASDAQ history. In two days, investors ran off a cliff, bounced right back up, and then climbed a mountain. Dow and NASDAQ swung nearly 500 points each and plumbed lows not seen since spring. Alan Greenspan spoke about the economy (good news - he's convinced that everything he's done will work out fine) and most of the biggest names in tech stocks reported earnings...
...what is the effect of the Electoral College on the power of the people? Is an individual's vote more or less powerful in a straight popular election or an electoral college system? MIT physicist Alan Natapoff attempts to give us an answer. First he defines "vote power" as the probability that your vote will break a tie and directly cause one candidate to be elected over another. Ridiculous as this definition may seem, when you watch the election returns in November you will realize that unless the popular vote in your state is split right down the middle with...
...storm has been brewing in Nashville over just who is country and who ain't. The two fronts converged at last week's Country Music Association Awards, where the contemporary DIXIE CHICKS took home four trophies while traditionalists George Strait and Alan Jackson won the Vocal Event category for Murder on Music Row, a duet that condemns country's pop trend with lines like "The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang." Spooky. Making light of it all is a song called I'd Give My Right Nut to Save...