Word: hushing
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Midnight trading. Hush-hush commissions. Corrupt executives. The recent torrent of headlines about mutual-fund scandals provides ample cause for outrage among investors. But if you're wondering how badly the industry's shenanigans have damaged your wallet, the answer is, probably not much. A Stanford University study found that overnight arbitraging in funds cost investors more than $4 billion a year. That's hardly a drop in the bucket, but it was widely diluted in a fund industry with $7 trillion in assets under management...
Byrne was also convicted on four counts of witness tampering for his concerted efforts to hush BPD officers who had witnessed the events...
...singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei helped market, has received numerous awards, including the Yokohama Film Festival 2001 grand prize. His freshest discovery is Rinko Kawauchi. Takei simultaneously published three books by this then-unknown female photographer in 2001; later that year Kawauchi received the prestigious Kimura Ihei Memorial Photo Award and the Photographic...
...into the menu lists the omissions but assures us, “By this time next week, y’all is gonna be able to experience it all!!!” For now there’s still plenty to experience. Starters include various types of hot wings, hush puppies, fried okra and “frickles.” For the woefully uninformed, those are fried pickles. There are a few salads, but the heart of the menu lies in the more meaty options: all sorts of ribs, pulled pork, chicken fried steak, catfish and barbecued chicken. Vegetarians...
...least distract from, the numb and searing emptiness of loss. For us, anecdotes—about her and her sayings and doings, even about our various ordeals in getting to the funeral—become a canon of bittersweet memory, the only way to break the terrible hush...