Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which leaves Gore with an important lesson as he approaches his 2000 campaign: cyberpolitics isn't the safe territory he might have thought it was. That's one more thing he can start to lose sleep over...
...derivatives that allowed the bank to bet heavily against the Taiwan dollar. "The bottom line in this whole derivatives issue is if I'm a trader, I'll take the biggest bets that I can because if I win, I'll go home a millionaire," says Peabody. "If I lose, then the central banks or the IMF [International Monetary Fund] will bail me out. So you've created a moral hazard...
...early 1970s to more than $25 trillion today, an amount exceeding the size of the U.S., European and Japanese economies combined. Bankers quickly, and appropriately, point out that this figure really represents just the "notional" amount, or face value of the derivatives, and not what they could potentially lose. But the amount due, or at risk, is derived (hence derivative) from those vast notional amounts...
...your article about the Pilates exercise regimen [HEALTH, April 27]. I have been doing Pilates faithfully for the past 12 years. But despite what exerciser Kym Bassett says, you can't eat chocolate cake and get thin. Wait till Bassett gets to be 25; she'll see. People who lose 10 lbs. and two dress sizes are losing the bulk they put on at the gym. Pilates will give you excellent posture and a midsection like a rock and will lift your butt. It won't make you look like a movie star or a model. RONA JAFFE New York...
...TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's ruling wasn't too surprising legally, considering that such a 'secret-service privilege' was utterly without precedent. But it's another major victory for Ken Starr. "He's yet to lose a procedural battle in the courts," says, "and each one makes his tactics a little harder to criticize." President Clinton was quick to paint the decision as still more evidence of a right-wing world gone mad. "It never occurred to anybody that anyone would ever be so insensitive to the responsibility of the Secret Service that...