Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge accepted the Government's argument that his views might blur the issue.) Regan's trades were part of a hedging strategy under which you buy and sell related securities at the same time. You lose on one and gain on the other, but if you've done the math right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee! But you've got to keep your transaction costs low and, of course, not get caught with a taxable gain on one half of the hedge without realizing your loss on the other half. It was to avoid...
CHICAGO. At Harper High School, two boys enter a math class and start a fight. While students and the teacher try to break it up, one intruder lunges toward Chester Dunbar and stabs him in the back with a knife. As the two boys flee, Dunbar slumps to the classroom floor, fatally wounded...
Like others at Harvey Milk, Goldhaber is angry about what public schools do to problem kids. "I had a girl who had been told she was stupid at math and refused to study it. I begged her. I said, 'Please, please, please,' until she agreed. Now math is the first thing she wants to do. Other teachers promoted them, but subject matter left them behind...
...admissions committee recommends that applicants have taken four years each of English and math, and three each of laboratory science, history, and foreign language, said Marlyn M. Lewis, director of admissions...
...this is not something out of your old Math 1 b notes. They are the first few lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's athletic fight song...