Word: alpha
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These two sectors have grown fantastically over the past decade, and their star performers have been fantastically well rewarded. Three hedge-fund managers made more than $1 billion each last year, reports trade magazine Alpha. Private-equity firm Blackstone's public offering in June made its founders multibillionaires. Now both businesses are under stress...
...arrival seems to eat constantly, I thought eating a loaf of bread and all the bagels might be endearing, but no. Chewing up the breast pump didn't go over well either. My only hope is to lay low for the next few days and then flatter the alpha male with my usual enthusiasm...
...little bit like the older brother, the alpha male who defends by playfully attacking. Early in the new film, there's a scene in which Willis yanks a guy out of a parked car for trying to get to second base with a college student. She yells at Willis' character for intervening, calling him John. He tells her that he hates when she calls him that. So she calls him Dad. It's kind of creepy, the fun we're supposed to be having assuming a college kid is his girlfriend, and it gets one to thinking about Willis' dating...
...weird side, this bald man in a red T shirt and crisp blue jeans, telling me things that aren't quite true, trying to end the interview early, clearly disgusted by my occupation--but it's a likeable weird. When I leave, he does perhaps the strangest alpha-male thing of all, something I've never heard an interviewee do. He nods approvingly and says, "Good job." You can't be Willis-smooth unless you play the game...
...know is that we wear a cap and gown,” Phillips said. “I think there might be a key involved.” James F. Coakley ’68, secretary of Harvard’s PBK chapter—Alpha Iota of Massachusetts—shed a bit of light on the mystery surrounding the ceremony to come. “We don’t give people anything but a certificate, and there’s a great deal of handshaking, but that’s about it,” said Coakley...