Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the Dunster House deaths, the news office could have adopted the line that every institution has troubled students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation, " Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in The New Yorker last June...
...rules of engagement sometimes observed between the photo hounds and the princess had gone completely by the board, as the street value of a grainy shot of Diana with Al Fayed reached six figures. The stalking had become so bad that two weeks ago Diana disclosed that the idea of leaving Britain and its paparazzi had crossed her mind. "Any sane person would have left long ago," she told the French newspaper Le Monde. "But I cannot. I have my sons...
...force comes from a cadre of eight instructors rather than the plethora of training officers used in the past. After the Rodney King incident, the brass discovered that cops on the street could not even agree on whether the officers involved in the beating were following official procedure. "The idea," says Charles Binse, a department commander, "is to teach from the same book...
...considered overvalued. (In a basic short position a fund sells borrowed shares at one price with plans to repurchase them at a lower price after the stock falls.) If the market rose, they still had an upside in the winners; if it fell, they profited from short sales. The idea stuck: there are nearly 3,500 U.S. hedge funds today, with equity of $134 billion...
...rich enough (in some cases, at least $5 million in investable assets) that they won't be wiped out by some slap-happy manager who bets everything on the Thai baht. Hedge funds shine in volatile markets. Says Robert Jaeger, president of Evaluation Associates Capital Markets: "The whole idea behind hedge funds is to have some money invested with people whose returns aren't going to be totally determined by whether the market is up or down. It's a different risk...