Word: goldings
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...came. The villagers living in western Burma's remote Arakan state couldn't quite fathom what the Chinese told them, that below their rice fields might lie a vast reserve of oil. For three months the Chinese drilled the earth near the muddy Kaladan River in search of black gold. Then, just as suddenly, they left. In December, the Indians arrived. Through Burmese intermediaries, they took the village's paddies as their own, depriving locals of their main source of income. Compensation was promised, villagers tell me, but none has been paid so far. So the impoverished residents...
...time to put all your money into gold? That depends on your appetite for risk. The sheer amount of speculation in gold and uncertainty in the foreign-exchange market will keep gold prices as volatile and unpredictable (i.e., risky) as ever. Like any financial market, the gold market is susceptible to manipulation...
...having a small percentage of your assets in gold could serve as a hedge against an exacerbated crisis. At the very least, hold on to your jewelry...
...well competitively this year with the Tufts, BU, and Brown competitions, so I think we’re set up to do pretty well,” she said. And pretty well they did. Chun Xue Patricia Hao ’09 came away with a win in the Gold Level Latin competition, happy to see her hard work pay off. “Since freshman year I’ve been running off in the middle of the night for five hour practices,” she said. “My friends all ask, ‘what...
...chair and crosses his arms. His sparsely decorated office marks a striking contrast to the Faculty Room just a floor above. The walls are bare. As I interview him, my eyes fall upon Eliot’s Harvard Classics series on a small gray bookshelf nearby, their gold letters glittering against the red binding...