Word: parallelisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British securities executive describes it-was beginning to infect the bank's stiff and cautious culture. In the early '90s, the London headquarters of Barings was struggling with the division that championed derivatives-financial instruments that use the public's massive bet on securities to create a parallel universe of side bets, some straightforward (like futures) and others arcane (like swaptions). Derivatives helped the Tokyo unit make huge amounts of money-the kind of money that made Christopher Heath, the head of Baring Securities who was pushing these instruments, Britain's highest paid executive. The Tokyo team, says a former...
Obviously, The Harvard Crimson is not The Washington Post. Still, I'd like to draw a parallel and I hope you'll find it a useful one: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were not told about what came to be known as the Watergate scandal...
...Virtual reality -- computerized sensory immersion -- was named, largely inspired and partly equipped by Jaron Lanier, who grew up under a geodesic dome in New Mexico, once played clarinet in the New York City subway and still sports dreadlocks halfway down his back. The latest generation of supercomputers, utilizing massive parallel processing, was invented, developed and manufactured by Danny Hillis, a genial longhair who set out to build ``a machine that could be proud of us.'' Public-key encryption, which can ensure unbreakable privacy for anyone, is the brainchild of Whitfield Diffie, a lifelong peacenik and privacy advocate who declared...
...Balanced Budget Amendment has a parallel purpose and will probably enjoy the same amount of success. Just as in the case of the decision to go to war, nobody forces our legislators to spend like there is no tomorrow. A piece of paper outlawing the budget deficit isn't worth the paper it's written...
...named the country's first Prime Minister in 1947, a year before independence. A popular politician, he promoted nonalignment abroad and democracy at home-but discord within his government led General Ne Win to seize power in 1962. U Nu proclaimed himself Prime Minister of a "parallel government" when pro-democracy activity pushed aside Ne Win in 1988, but the military quickly placed U Nu under house arrest. Released in 1992, he spent his last years in seclusion...