Word: element
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...addition, instantaneous electronic trading, particularly on a global scale, could increase the volatility of markets in the same way that computer- generated program trading has done. Filtering trades through human hands and minds might be slightly sluggish and inefficient, but it can serve to add an element of stability (and occasionally even a moment of rationality) to a marketplace. Says Albert Sindlinger, who runs a Wallingford, Pa., investment- research firm bearing his name: "If the past is any indication of what computers will do to markets in the future, then we may all be in big trouble...
...third element that seems bound to fuel further controversy over the NEA is a verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants. On that standard, four performance artists (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck and Tim Miller) saw their applications for grants rejected and sued the NEA. Last week Judge A. Wallace Tashima struck down the "decency" clause as vague and unconstitutional. The government, he said, does not have "free rein to impose ( whatever...
...just for restraint but also for creativity. There are opportunities for economic growth that bear the environment in mind. There is money to be made in efficient use of resources and in new technologies that make it possible. This intriguing and encouraging message -- that environmental sensitivity is an essential element of competitiveness -- comes from the Business Council for Sustainable Development, which includes CEOS of many prominent corporations...
...Gomes can well attest, with the rise of religion has come the development of a small but outspoken conservative element at Harvard, represented by such organizations as the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and the conservative publication Peninsula...
...element of competition had departed from the races," The Crimson noted...