Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...internal HMC documents obtained by TheCrimson suggest that during the five year periodbetween 1986 and 1991, Aeneas' compound annualreturn averaged only 5.4 percent. That would putthe high risk division's returns not only belowHMC's internal benchmark of 11.1 percent for thatperiod, but below the 6.9 percent for that period,but below the 6.9 percent a very safe and highlyconservative investment in 10-year U.S. TreasuryNotes would have brought...
...different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
When a polo pony from the royal compound in Jordan plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...
Holding center stage in antioxidant circles, however, is beta carotene, a complex deep orange compound that is naturally abundant in sweet potatoes, carrots and cantaloupes. Beta carotene is turned into vitamin A by the body as needed. That makes it impossible to overdose on beta carotene, even though taking too much vitamin A can lead to liver damage and other effects...
Given that many rapes go unreported every year across the nation, the College's existing procedures, which seem to compound this reluctance, are completely unacceptable...