Word: mix
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...result, what appeared in your newspaper was a patently unfair and woefully misleading mix of halftruths and unsubstantiated opinions about an individual long recognized as one of Florida's most successful employers and leading philanthropists. Pravda couldn't have been more slanted. For example...
...wild card in the mix is Colin Powell. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been writing a book, making carefully chosen speaking engagements and keeping his profile low. Top G.O.P. operatives fantasize out loud about a Powell run, knowing the former general would steal votes from Clinton's thin base of minorities, women and trade unionists. "If Powell wanted the nomination," said a G.O.P. strategist, "he probably could get it." No one is saying that about Dan Quayle...
...strength convincingly. Combined with some admirable under-playing from Watkins, Poreba absolutely stumps the reporter at their first meeting; her reply to his amiable "but I'm Mike to my friends" is "Of whom you have many, I'm sure." Poreba delivers such loaded lines with the perfect mix of sweetness and slyness, and men, including Connor, cannot help but fall helpless before her. While Tracy's relationship with her exhusband C.K. Dexter haven (Aaron Zelman) seems a bit too acidic at times, Tracy eventually proves to be nowhere near unbreakable, and Poreba vacillates admirably between the woman who tells...
...pause to consider the consequences of the proliferation of these little-understood instruments, their use as a vehicle for risk transference is well documented. Investors are risk averse. They require a market rate of return for the risk they are willing to assume. A portfolio that includes a diversified mix of derivative products (futures and options) can produce higher return with lower risk than the same portfolio composed solely of stocks and bonds...
While a University subvention does enable us to distribute the magazine to all domestic alumni of the Colleges and the graduate schools, advertising income and voluntary contributions from readers provide more than 70 percent of our revenue mix...