Word: following
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Opponents of privatization argue that the sudden increase in stock market investments will cause a dramatic rise in stock prices today. What will follow, they argue, is a big decrease in prices as Baby Boomers withdraw money from their accounts. However, the increased savings resulting from these privatization proposals represents a tiny portion of the total value of U.S. stock and bonds. It is unlikely, therefore, to have any significant impact on stock and bond prices...
Damn, I missed the train! Good, its sliding doors have opened again to let me through. Which one has happened to frazzled young Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow)? Both. It is the cunning conceit of the British romantic comedy Sliding Doors to create and follow alternative futures--both tines of that fork in life's road we all occasionally face and that leaves us wondering, What...
...course, certain unique city games are also invented, various forms of tag and follow the leader, played in asphalt parking lots and alleys throughout the neighborhood. As Quincy R. Evans '00, a veteran of such childhood frolicking, recollects, everyone on his block has always understood how to have a good time...
...raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess. The disc was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini--he also worked on Nirvana's album In Utero--and his personal love for noise rock comes through too strongly here. Page and Plant are better off when they follow their own, time-tested instincts...
Undergraduate-admissions officers in California and Texas may be downgrading--or ignoring altogether--the significance of standardized tests, but don't expect their law-school counterparts to follow suit. At some elite institutions, a candidate's score on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) can count for as much as half the total application. The exam is so integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last...