Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accused of sharply accelerating the ups and downs of the stock market and making the rest of Wall Street seasick from the volatility. Computer-driven program trading began quietly enough in the early 1980s, when investment houses started employing advanced software to carry out, in a few minutes' time, complex transactions that previously took hours or days to complete. This gave investors the ability to buy or sell quickly a group of securities as if it were just one stock...
That capability gave rise about three years ago to a particularly canny and complex form of program trading. It is a kind of arbitrage in which traders make lightning transactions to take advantage of fleeting discrepancies in the prices of related financial instruments in different markets. One of the most popular such plays involves the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which rises and falls according to the performance of 500 stocks. A program trader will use a computer's calculating ability to monitor constantly the difference between the level of the S&P index and the price...
...Patty Production Assistant arrives on the set of Grover, a docudrama based on the life of our most complex and misunderstood President, Grover Cleveland. She enters the makeup trailer, where Sam Star, playing the elderly Cleveland, has been artificially aging for three hours. His foam rubber jowels have now reached floor level...
...this time, "The Enchanter" had changed into the complex tale of the love affair between the brooding Humbert Humbert and his spunky nymphet. As Nabokov put it, the original short story "had, in secret, grown the claws and wings of a novel...
...takes a special journalistic talent to make medical stories come alive. The subject matter is complex; writers and editors are confronted with jargon- filled journals and stacks of press releases touting "breakthroughs." They must quickly differentiate between true medical advances and sophisticated hyperbole. Getting the story wrong can mean giving sick people false hopes or, even worse, groundless fears. Getting it right can help them discover new pathways to healthier lives...