Word: funded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock at some future point. The plutonium of the financial world, derivatives are complex financial instruments that, in steady economic times, can churn out megatons of money for investors. Bet badly, though, and you get a meltdown. When Long-Term Capital Management, a high-risk, high-rolling hedge fund based on the formulas of two derivatives Nobelists, went belly-up last month, Greenspan realized that the damage wasn't restricted to the brandy-and-cigars crowd. Banks and financial institutions were deep into hedge funds, and when Merrill Lynch or BankAmerica takes a $100 million hit, a lot of ordinary...
...central tenet of Sachs' advice has been to reject policy formulated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a group of 182 countries whose purpose is to promote global financial stability through such activities as money lending and financial policy review...
...World Wildlife Fund recently ranked the long-leaf-pine regions of the Southeast as one of the world's 200 "most outstanding and diverse" ecosystems...
...These are one-of-a-kind ecosystems," said Dominick A. DellaSala, former director of U.S. forest conservation for the World Wildlife Fund and currently the director of its Klamath-Siskiyou regional office, who drafted the letter. "We lose these ecosystems, there's nothing to replace them...
...black donation box in the middle of the table set a somber note. Club members were soliciting contributions for the organization's "Shepard Memorial Fund...