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...Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), a confident and too-cute 9-year-old slave who possesses an unprecedented potential for the all-powerful Force. Qui-Gon believes that the boy may be The Chosen One, the one who will restore balance to the Force. There's all kinds of ridiculous scientific mumbo jumbo about Anakin's seemingly immaculate conception, but Qui-Gon's so far-gone by this point that we have no choice but to follow his lead...
...platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone--with titles like How to Invest. Under Merrill the firm gave...
...perspire when you read the stories about the recklessness of the hedge-fund managers at Long Term Capital? Did you check out the mumbo jumbo in the prospectus of your mutual fund to see if it might be using your nest egg as collateral to borrow millions to bet on, say, the 49ers game? Relax. The securities regulators are better than you think. They worry more about you than about the folks who invested in Long Term--the sort who can drop $10 million without having to sell their jets...
...written at Harvard, he wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that.'" Upon checking the handbook for teaching fellows, Shrier discovered that the T.F. was indeed supposed to correct gender-biased language. Having the correction being the only comment on the entire paper, however, might be taking things a little...
...safe candidate to diversify the board, but RCA ended up with a woman who had the strongest technical background of the group," Selby smiles. "I could understand all their mumbo-jumbo on microprocessors...