Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last May after he lost $128 million of the company's money by using derivatives to play the foreign-exchange market. In Chile a derivatives trader named Juan Pablo Davila lost $207 million of taxpayers' money last fall, instantly earning himself a place in Chilean infamy, by speculating in copper futures for the state-owned mining company. In Germany the giant conglomerate Metallgesellschaft dwarfed even those losses when it dropped $1.3 billion last year by betting the wrong way on oil-futures contracts. Only a last-minute bailout by the company's banks saved it from bankruptcy...
...books that were reordered, Copper said he could not predict when the Coop would receive new shipments...
...friend of his saw me walk out of the store. And a week later, he gave me the little plant, all wrapped in tissue and cellophane and copper twine made of stars...
...Scientists have identified the defective gene that causes Wilson's disease, a disorder that destroys the liver and brain. The gene prevents the liver from removing the excess copper that enters the body in food; eventually, the metal hurts the liver and leaks into the brain. The finding could lead to a screening test and more effective treatment...
...biggest problem here and throughout the Rockies is acidic drainage. Gold-bearing rock tends to contain large quantities of sulfur, which form sulfuric acid when exposed to air and water. The acid puts such highly toxic metals as copper and cadmium into solution, and the poisons kill aquatic life. That happened before when Henderson was mined...