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...executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey's Anatomy will choose...
...process can now go one of two ways: Either the planning committee can allow Behnisch the room to chart the future, or they can pull back in fear of disrupting the love affair. The latter option would yield only architectural boredom in Allston. It is crucial that the design process keep at the front of its mind the period when Cambridge was, in the words of ArchitectureBoston editor Elizabeth S. Padjen, “an architectural Camelot of high energy, idealism, and creativity...
...capitalism. What Amaranth can teach us, rather, is the need for a little humility. The people at Amaranth were the best and the brightest. They were graduates of the best colleges. They took fairly rigorous math and economics courses, where they probably learned Portfolio Theory and Black-Scholes option pricing models. And to be fair, most of what was taught worked most of the time. But then a kind of lethal hubris began to settle in. They began to believe that the right models and right formulas would allow them to master the markets. It all became play money...
...easy for staff members to escape Wisconsin's brutal winters. Carondelet and Mercy are the only two companies on the AARP list of 50 with snowbird programs, but Deborah Russell, who puts together the list for AARP, predicts that half her Best Employer companies will offer a snowbird option within five years. Already, Home Depot and CVS have about 300 warm-weather warriors each. They have little trouble absorbing their sun-loving workers because the crowds in their stores fluctuate with the seasons...
Think of a guy who is anxious that his hacienda in Miami might be caught in a bubble but doesn't want to cash out and move. If he buys a put option on the Miami housing-price index and the value of homes in Miami (including his) slides, the money he makes on the derivative offsets his loss. A put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell a security at a set price. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a future date. Both are derivatives because they derive their value...