Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...among its most worrisome features. What if the whole nterconnected computer network crashes? (Hell, what if just your part does?) What if a hacker breaks in at the wrong place? What if the bank "blows up," as Barings PLC did in 1995 after 28-year-old Nicholas Leeson bet the house and lost? Industry insiders--the folks who have designed the systems--argue that the infrastructure they have built is secure enough to survive any tampering and that the markets themselves will factor in the risks of rogue or inexperienced traders. "There is no chance that a money market will...
...child program, including meals and housing (guests stay in a dormitory-style facility and are separated by gender). Families that don't like the idea of sleeping in bunk beds can stay at any nearby hotel and join the rest of the group for programs and activities. One good bet: the Ramada Inn at Kennedy Space Center, which gives Space Camp participants a special rate ($49.50 for a double room...
This interpretation may be my own illusion, but I would bet that many other students have the same impressions. Though Harvard is a large place, and complete school familiarity is unfeasible, the cold shoulder is not always a result of somebody forgetting someone else's name or one person not remembering where he met another. Though that may be part of the explanation, there's something more, something unique to Harvard and other intellectual settings...
...another nod to North End tradition, Alloro serves neither coffee nor dessert. Armed with sizable to-go packages, we toddled out of the door in search of a digestive cup of coffee. Alloro's facelift is neither unconditionally an improvement nor a regression, but a complete renovation. A solid bet for inexpensive, no-nonsense Italian food, Alloro quells the cruelest hunger pangs...
...whole national conversation about what kind of sex isn't really sex. And just as the pain grew most acute, when accusers were unearthed almost daily with old charges ranging from rudeness to rape, Judgment Day came at last. We could finally understand that Clinton was willing to bet his presidency on a trial--because he might just get it back...