Word: edly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troubles have their roots in the days when his party reveled in a deep-seated hostility to the running dogs of capitalism. "In 1983 we still had a manifesto committed to nationalizing key parts of industry, promoting an agenda that was set against every interest of British business," says Ed Owen, a former government adviser. After being crushed by Margaret Thatcher in that election, says Owen, Labour decided that it had to prove it was "now the party that would provide the means by which industry and business could flourish." But Labour lost elections in 1987 and again...
...stop the President from increasing the number of troops in Iraq, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, three of his 2008 rivals, all introduced bills to do just that. Seemingly every week Clinton moves closer to a position Edwards took in November 2005, when he wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post entitled "I was wrong" for voting for the war. Clinton says the country would not have gone to war with Iraq if she had been president. And Edwards is the first one to come out with a detailed universal health-care plan, which all the candidates...
...This op-ed is the first in a series on Black History Month...
...placards saying, we are all Hizballah now. They're suffering from what Paul Berman calls rationalist naivete. They think there must be historical reasons why this is happening, and this is all our fault. If someone's got dark skin, there's a very good chance that we f---ed them up in the past, and therefore anything they do to us is morally intelligible. They haven't sensed that this is in fact a millennial death-cult which is on the rise...
...mutual funds traveled this trail of tears, Southern California math professor Ed Thorp was delivering positive, usually double-digit, returns every year to investors in the fund he launched in 1969. Thorp, probably best known for figuring out how to beat the house at blackjack, did this by programming computers to identify small price discrepancies between securities that should have been trading in tandem. Then he borrowed tons of money to bet that these discrepancies would disappear. Such strategies were off-limits to mutual funds, but Thorp's Princeton Newport Partners was a hedge fund--an unregulated investment partnership catering...