Word: mason
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...Crimson editor. “John McMillions” differs by only a letter or two from the flesh-and-blood John C. McMillian, a history and literature tutor and resident tutor in Quincy House. And the eloquently-named “Mo Bludfer-Oyle” is Jennifer Mason, an administrative coordinator at the Graduate School of Education...
...Mason is confident that this week’s march was “definitely successful,” citing a healthy turnout and media attention from the Fox News Channel and public radio station WBUR...
When they got to the Republican headquarters with their physical carte blanche, Mason says the Billionaires didn’t meet a particularly warm reception—or, for that matter, with any reception...
...with workers trading futures contracts on such "commodities" as sales, product success and supplier behavior. The concept: a work force contains vast amounts of untapped, useful information that a market can unlock. "Markets are likely to revolutionize corporate forecasting and decision making," says Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University, in Virginia, who has researched and developed markets. "Strategic decisions, such as mergers, product introductions, regional expansions and changing CEOs, could be effectively delegated to people far down the corporate hierarchy, people not selected by or even known to top management...
...supposed to help predict future terrorist attacks. A public backlash killed that Pentagon project a few months before its debut, but not before the media broadcast the notion that useful information embedded within a group of people could be drawn out and organized via a marketplace. Says George Mason's Hanson, who helped design the market: "People noticed." Another predictive market, the Iowa Electronic Markets at the University of Iowa, has been around since 1988. That bourse has accepted up to $500 from anyone wanting to wager on election results. Players buy and sell outcomes: Is Kerry...