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...around the world in the weeks since the U.S. Federal Reserve began raising interest rates for the first time in five years. The Fed's move on Feb. 4 led the aggressive speculators who run high-rolling investment vehicles called hedge funds, which use derivatives in daily trading, to dump billions of dollars' worth of bond futures and thereby drive down the prices of the underlying bonds. The worst fallout occurred in Europe, where bond prices plunged and interest rates, which move in the opposite direction of prices, climbed about one full percentage point. The biggest loser amid the global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Money Machine | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...students on the amount of food waste they generate are but two examples of this program's efforts. Questions still arise, though, about necessary improvements in the "water to waste" cooling systems. These systems use several thousand gallons of clean water each day in the process of cooling and dump the end product down the drain...

Author: By Damon G. Guterman, | Title: How Green Is Harvard? | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...kind of sat back," captain Sean McCann said. "[Assistant Coach Jerry Pawlowski '88] told us to force their forwards to dump the puck in, and that mad it much easier for us to handle the puck...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Pros and Cons of a First-Round Bye | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...those polled think the Clintons are hiding something about Whitewater, and a third think they broke the law. Even the financial markets decided they didn't like what they saw: on Thursday the bond market shuddered with rumors about new Whitewater bombshells, prompting investors around the world to dump their U.S. Treasury bonds and buy gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of Hillary Clinton | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...worst pun that your boyfriend has ever made: Oh God. He's made so many bad ones. Don't get me wrong, but if I didn't love him dearly, I'd dump him over the puns...

Author: By Clare A. Sammells, | Title: Big Stick No Hunt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

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