Word: footing
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...modeling at large an “extreme overreaction” to the events of recent months.“I’m quite convinced if we threw out all mathematics in our efforts to model the financial world, we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot,” he says.Economists acknowledged that the crisis has made it necessary to tweak models and redirect interest to questions that have previously received little attention. Economists should study how models can incorporate greater sensitivity to rare events, and how macroeconomic models can be better integrated with the outputs...
...paced racing game with high-end graphics, and I happen to have played a lot of it. With Project Natal, instead of using a joystick, you steer by holding your hands up in the air like you're gripping a steering wheel. To hit the gas, you move your foot forward along the floor. To brake, you move it back. To trigger the turbo boost, you do a gear-shifting, fist-pumping movement with your right arm. Awesome...
...well-worn story told at The Crimson about a wealthy magazine owner cold-calling the newsroom a few years ago and asking for recruits. Give me your name, and I’ll give you a job. Couldn’t have been easier. It was a foot in the door that served at least a couple young writers quite well...
...stands, the Republican party appears philosophically impotent, hoping that a sufficient number of voters is trained to cheer for the same old issues like opposition to taxes and gay rights. Clinging to them so stubbornly has led the GOP to shoot itself in the foot Cheney-style on a number of occasions, doing a major disservice not only to its own voters, but to the country as a whole. But rather than bolster its image with fresh policy proposals, the party’s current strategy seems to be to take a time-out and keep its fingers crossed...
...recently as a month ago I was invited to speak at the Fly and I never turn down an invitation to speak, but I turned this one down,” Dershowitz said. “I won’t step foot in a place that discriminates...