Word: berte
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...Citron, he remained at home and out of sight after surrendering his $100,000-a-year job and declaring that "what I did was not irresponsible in any manner, shape or form." When Citron's investment strategy came under attack earlier this year, Bert Scott, who heads the Orange County General Services Agency, said, "It's like he walked down the street, and someone just stepped in front of him and punched him in the stomach. This has taken him totally by surprise." Even more surprising, perhaps, has been the revelation that this shy, bespectacled public servant had this kind...
...sure what to do about it. Not only are most politicians unfamiliar with the financial techniques involved, but the whole field is evolving so rapidly that new legislation may be obsolete by the time it passes. "No one has any idea what the policy should be," says Bert Ely, a banking consultant who in 1989 correctly predicted that the savings-and-loan bailout would cost taxpayers about $150 billion. "It's a problem for all the industrialized countries. Computers are allowing the creation of purer and purer financial plutonium, and frankly, the regulatory process cannot keep...
...cancer to unfold that most people end up dying of ! other causes. Indeed, contrary to popular perception, getting cancer is not at all easy. To begin with, a cell must accumulate mutations not in just one or two genes but in several. In the case of colon cancer, Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Oncology Center have shown that a cell must sustain damage to at least three tumor-suppressor genes and one oncogene. The first mutation spurs the growth of the cell, triggering the formation of a benign polyp. Later changes cause the polyp...
Wilson, 64, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for his book On Human Nature, which explored the role of biology in socialization. He also shared the 1991 Pulitzer for the work The Ants with Bert Holldobler, a former Harvard zoologist...
Times change. In a stunning reversal last week, MCI announced a deal to acquire 17% of the same venture, Nextel Communications, for a whopping $1.3 billion. "Things were different then," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts Jr. "MCI faces an entirely new world today...