Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insolent kitten, a whimsical promise of claws and cuddles. He is a Doberman in a nondescript suit, a deadly compound of wariness and instant reactions. Less fancifully, she's Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston, playing what she is, a pop diva crossing over to the movies, though it's unlikely that she will be up for an Oscar the first time out, as is the fictional Rachel). He's Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), reluctantly signed on to provide security for her after death threats have been received...
Furthermore, except for new additions from outside, they are a direct result of internal management by HMC and not dependent on anything else. Even an average performance by HMC managers could not help but make it grow at almost geometric rates thanks to the miracle of compound interest. It is precisely here that all the powers that be failed abysmally. Scant attention over the last ten years resulted in its level being perhaps $2.2 billion below where it should be now. Reasonable people may differ as to the exact figures but not as to their magnitude...
Over the past five years, Aeneas' compound rate of return has averaged 2.8 percent, he said...
...Water Department will be using the compound potassium permanganate to treat the water supply, DiVasta said...
...still darkness outside the compound, a handful of women and children shelter for the night beneath a stunted shade tree. They will be the first in line tomorrow. Others have made their way back to roofless, unkempt huts, abandoned during the fighting here, to wait out the long hours until another feeding day begins. Says UNICEF's Dr. Yeron: "I have been in the refugee camps during the Ethiopian famine, and I have never seen such a catastrophe as we have in Somalia." Still, he says, since dry rations became available here two weeks ago, the situation has improved. "Last...