Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Granted, not everyone lives on student-standard time. And the truth is, if she called me at 3:15 in the afternoon she might have woken me as well. In fact, it would probably have been a better bet to call me during Hong Kong business hours (the country or the restaurant) than during Eastern-Standard working hours...
...highest honor a Radcliffe woman can receive went to a biochemistry concentrator with a 14.5 cumulative GPA and a history of running marathons on a $1 bet...
...current roommate and I were sitting in the Union freshman year," Hwang said after the ceremony. "She bet me a dollar that I wouldn't run the Boston Marathon...I never thought a marathon was something I could do, but I finished it and won the dollar...I think I spent it on a Coke...
...rates--the Fed's job--is art, not science. That helps explain how Greenspan could see the stock market as irrationally inflated in December but be less concerned today, even though stocks continue to rise. Like Picasso, he might be into a new phase. But it's a sure bet that the Fed's brush will miss the canvas at some point. Why? Even basic economic readings are hotly debated. There are no guideposts. And that gets me back to what economists don't know...
Stansky: No, I disagree. I think Jeff invested in the same manner as Peter. Why did Jeff have 40% in technology? It wasn't some sector bet. It was because he found 40% of his fund invested in companies that he really liked. Jeff didn't invest in some technology stocks he didn't like just to get this weighting, just because he thought he had a magic number...