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Emboldened by this work, economists began to apply their number-crunching skills to the postwar market. Chicago graduate student Harry Markowitz devised a model for picking stocks that was, in Friedman's estimation, "identical" to his artillery-shell-fragmentation trade-off. And in the late 1950s, scholars at Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology became enamored of the idea that stock-market movements were, like many physical phenomena, random...
...MARTY MARKOWITZ, Brooklyn borough president, on a Domino's ad campaign for its new Brooklyn Style Pizza...
...this kind of combined effort that will be needed to prevent HIV-AIDS from worsening in Africa, and from sprialling out of control in countries like China and India. "It's one week every two years to express solidarity for the AIDS movement, "says Dr. Martin Markowitz, of New York City's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center who makes it a point to attend. "I think by not coming, you cheat yourself and you cheat the movement." And when it comes to fighting HIV, that's something we just can't afford to do right...
...designate it" tactic is a great way to deal with tasks that take too long to do immediately. You just pick a reasonably empty spot on your calendar and schedule the task for that spot - preferably with a reminder alert. Markowitz also suggests bundling non-urgent tasks together at one time, so they don't preoccupy you when you are under the gun. Another tip that's obvious but underused: unsubscribe to useless mailings...
...worked at the RAND corporation, an Air Force think-tank. There he formed many relationships with his colleagues—including Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz—that would last throughout his life. “Alan was a very intelligent and very productive colleague,” Markowitz said. “I have great respect for him.”Manne’s modus operandi throughout his professional work was to create long-term, complex economic models. These models relied heavily on linear programming, a subset of mathematics, to determine optimal decision-making in a world...