Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adams, who is leaving his job after 10 relatively controversy-free years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turning down her request for the Enola Gay. The proposed script, he says, was in flux, and would be "objective," treat U.S. airmen as "skilled, brave, loyal" and would not make a judgment on "the morality of the decision ((to drop the bomb...
...point in the debate, the young audience laughed at Fenton after he misquoted the national anthem. "Is this the land of the home and the free and the brave?" he asked...
Neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Fenton advocates electing judges while at the same time ending the Massachusetts sales tax. He doesn't know the national anthem. At a recent debate, he asked, "Is this the land of the home and the free and the brave...
...restrained from extreme measures, even if it wanted to take them, by other social forces like the white-dominated business sector, the civil service, the police and army, and the nine new provincial governments. The country's democratization, says Hermann Giliomee, a leading Afrikaner academic, is "a bold and brave experiment with a real chance of success." A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus points to purely pragmatic limits on policy: "In order to keep the country afloat, to get economic growth, to avoid further flight of capital and skills from the country, you have to play it that...
While the brave new world of derivatives gives investors and regulators pause to consider the consequences of the proliferation of these little-understood instruments, their use as a vehicle for risk transference is well documented. Investors are risk averse. They require a market rate of return for the risk they are willing to assume. A portfolio that includes a diversified mix of derivative products (futures and options) can produce higher return with lower risk than the same portfolio composed solely of stocks and bonds...