Word: magellans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University will not fund the project directly, but the administration has given Kirshner permission to seek donors to raise the $13.7 million. The money will give Harvard a one-fifth share in the Magellan project, collaborating with the University of Arizona, MIT and the University of Michigan...
Right now, all that sits on the Magellan site 8,000 feet high in the arid mountains of Chile are a couple of foundations and one pod-shaped skeleton...
Kirshner, who is chair of the Astronomy Department, has been trying to raise money to purchase a 20 percent share in the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes being built at The Carnegie Foundation's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile...
...very size of Magellan has helped propel a technology-stock boom that some investors believe is due for a bust. Mutual funds that invest solely in computer and electronics companies have enjoyed returns of as much as 50% to 70% so far this year. But the sound of bursting bubbles echoed last week after Smith Barney technology analyst Jonathan Cohen questioned the high prices of some of the most speculative offerings on the NASDAQ exchange. Netscape, which traded as high as 161 that day, fell 28 3/4 points when Smith Barney said the Internet software company was probably worth...
...Vinik was dumping Micron shares, he was publicly touting the stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into his activities to see whether Vinik's comments were an improper attempt to keep Micron's price from falling as he was unloading it. That's not all the scrutiny Magellan is enduring. Last week studies by the Washington Post and the Seattle-based firm Olympic Capital showed that most of Magellan's recent gains came in the last three trading days of each month. Magellan, by sheer size, often leads the market its way. If it is found to have...