Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing is a sport and a business built largely on an unstable compound of chance and judgment: 1) the monetary chance-plus-judgment of race-betting, which last year drew some $2,064,572.984 across parimutuel counters, and 2) Mendelian chance-plus-judgment, which governs the horsemen's old and insatiable yearning to breed a horse with more speed and more stamina than the last one. Out of the mating of these two lines come numberless thrills, frequent beauties, many sorrows and not a few ills of commercial horse racing. Racing lives in constant worry of the anti-betting moralizers...
...general strike, the first in its history, last week paralyzed Honduras' north coast, home of the banana industry. More than 40,000 workers were out, and 40 million bananas a week were ripening and rotting. At one banana company compound, strikers switched locks on the gates and made U.S. managers ask permission...
...Reines and Cowan built the world's biggest and most complex scintillation counter. They filled a 28-in. cylinder with toluene, a scintillating liquid that contains lots of protons. In the toluene, they dissolved a small amount of a cadmium compound. Then they surrounded the cylinder with 90 photomultiplier tubes hooked up to respond to pairs of flashes caused by positrons and neutrons...
...task is every bit as cumbersome as his statutory instructions. As a matter of fact, the better the treasurer, the more voluminous becomes his work, for his investment funds appreciate with compound interest...
...pounds from his stewardship. He acknowledged it, that is, but died in 1793 without ever having paid a cent of it. Hancock's heirs, however, promised restitution and by 1802 had paid off the whole debt plus simple interest; yet the University is still out $526 of compound interest from its unfortunate appointment...