Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Chicago has recently revised it's Common Core Curriculum, which like Harvard stresses modes of inquiry as opposed to bodies of knowledge. However, Chicago's program is much more structured...
...wait. But suddenly the stock market begins to move downward, and the telltale digit on Schmuckler's screen starts changing like a countdown at Cape Canaveral. The trader and his two assistants erupt in a frenzy of shouted telephone conversations as they advise colleagues in New York City and Chicago to get ready for a blast of trading orders. "Strap on your seat belts, folks," says Schmuckler. "It looks like it's going to be another wild and woolly one! Get ready for Program C! Program...
...preset trading program called Firedown. Triggered by a few keystrokes, Firedown zips a massive order to the New York Stock Exchange for the sale of 685,000 shares of stock in 500 different companies for a total of $31.2 million. At the same time, Schmuckler telephones an order to Chicago traders who will buy futures contracts on the stocks he is selling. The simultaneous deals, equivalent to a precomputer blizzard of paper shuffling, take just a few minutes to complete. Schmuckler is pleased. The quick transactions will bring a return several percentage points higher than the interest on a more...
...sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent cure for herpes exists, and none is in sight...
Keith Grant knows that from painful experience. A Chicago steelworker, Grant was laid off from his $30,000-a-year job two years ago, on the day before he and his wife planned to close the purchase of their first house. That dream is postponed now. Grant, 28, earns only $13,000 as a maintenance worker at a Holiday Inn; his wife Pamela stays home and cares for their three children and stuffs envelopes to earn household money. But Grant is looking for a higher-paying job as an electrician. Says he: "I've been brought up in the middle...