Word: monitoring
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...fleeting discrepancies in the prices of related financial instruments in different markets. One of the most popular such plays involves the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which rises and falls according to the performance of 500 stocks. A program trader will use a computer's calculating ability to monitor constantly the difference between the level of the S&P index and the price of an S&P 500 index future, a financial instrument that has been traded since 1982 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The stock-index future is basically a contract in which the investor wagers whether the market...
...girls sitting outside in the New Orleans dusk. "Just watchin' the light change," she exhales. But watchin' the light change is the big payoff in a Jim Jarmusch movie. Stranger Than Paradise, a cult hit of 1984, cased its lowlifes with the metallic impassiveness of a closed-circuit monitor in a 7-Eleven store. You could find the proceedings funny or tedious; Jarmusch was too hip to care. He does have an eye, though, and aided by Cinematographer Robby Muller he makes Down by Law a ravishing shadow play. A canoe knifes through a tapioca swamp; the chiaroscuro that swathes...
Harvard officials yesterday criticized a Ralph Nader-sponsored organization which plans to monitor the University, saying that the group will not approach their stated task with an open mind...
Long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader has turned his attention to Harvard's power structure, announcing yesterday the formation of Harvard Watch, a non-profit organization to monitor the administration of the University...
Nader also said Harvard Watch will monitor theUniversity's diciplinary process. The steeringcommittee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences iscurrently discussing a proposal to establish astudent-faculty disciplinary body that wouldreview cases stemming from political protest...