Word: barney
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...rise and fall about twice as fast as regular T-bonds. Zeros, up 9.3% in the third quarter, aren't as exotic as they sound. You may know them as TIGERS (Treasury income growth receipts) from Merrill Lynch or CATS (certificates of accrual on Treasury securities) from Salomon Smith Barney. Basically, a zero is a bond that pays no current interest and is sold at a deep discount to its face value. The interest payments are built into the price at which the holder redeems the bond when it matures in five to 30 years. Zeros are easily obtained through...
Representative Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) spoke about impeachment, the influence of the right wing, the importance of voting, and gay rights to a crowd of about 150 students at Harvard Law School's Austin Hall yesterday afternoon...
...Brian Lamb, Ariana Huffington and those loud British people from Prime Minister's Questions are your idea of celebrities, today is your chance to become a star. Get your big break into show biz by trying to squeeze in front of C-Span cameras as Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) speaks at the law school. Find out why he is considered one of the most (intentionally) funny people on Capitol Hill. Maybe you'll make it onto the Weather Channel next. 3 to 4 p.m., Austin North (behind the Science Center). FREE...
...there's little I can do to stop it. It is as though an old, rusty train has ground into motion and is pulling out of the shed where it has been stored since 1974. Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde are there, one the conductor, the other the engineer. Barney Frank and Robert Wexler are inside one of the cars, waving at us through the cloudy windows. And we, the people, are standing in the weeds by the track, watching as the train chugs along across the land, toward an unknown destiny. We didn't decide to put the train...
...provides. The Democrats plan to make good use of her, although they will likely find that boiling down what she did into sound bites is more difficult than attacking Newt & Co. for partisan unfairness. (Look for Clinton's more verbally dexterous defenders, such as the Judiciary committee's Barney Frank of Massachusetts, to take the lead on Tripp...