Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be back next season. The only defenseman who will graduate in June is co-captain Claudia Asano, who kept up the intensity whenever it appeared Harvard's defensive zone coverage was about to go into one of its frustrating lapses. Asano's leadership and competitiveness will be a huge loss, but with juniors Courtney Smith and Christie MacKinnon and sophomore Julie Rando all ready to help out Ruggiero, Harvard's defense will be in good shape...
...will be back next season. The only defenseman who will graduate in June is co-captain Claudia Asano, who kept up the intensity whenever it appeared Harvard's defensive zone coverage was about to go into one of its frustrating lapses. Asano's leadership and competitiveness will be a huge loss, but with juniors Courtney Smith and Christie MacKinnon and sophomore Julie Rando all ready to help out Ruggiero, Harvard's defense will be in good shape...
...taxable accounts and are designed with stock-laden executives in mind, not the masses in tax-deferred retirement plans. They also require a minimum investment of $500,000 and a net worth of $1 million. It's a select crowd, for sure, and that bugs me. Diversification is a huge issue for all investors. If tax-free diversification for the rich is allowed to stand--and, frankly, even if it isn't--the time has come to ease restrictions on company-contributed shares in 401(k) plans. The average 401(k) account with employer stock contributions...
...exact number we read when the statement "X is not an M.P. number" is translated into Martian math notation. Think about this for a little while until you get it. Translated into Martian notation, the statement "X is not an M.P. number" will look to us like just some huge string of digits--a very big numeral. But that string of Martian writing is our numeral for the number X (about which the statement itself talks). Talk about twisty; this is really twisty! But twists were Godel's specialty--twists in the fabric of space-time, twists in reasoning, twists...
Silent Spring, serialized in the New Yorker in June 1962, gored corporate oxen all over the country. Even before publication, Carson was violently assailed by threats of lawsuits and derision, including suggestions that this meticulous scientist was a "hysterical woman" unqualified to write such a book. A huge counterattack was organized and led by Monsanto, Velsicol, American Cyanamid--indeed, the whole chemical industry--duly supported by the Agriculture Department as well as the more cautious in the media. (TIME's reviewer deplored Carson's "oversimplifications and downright errors...Many of the scary generalizations--and there are lots of them...