Word: pays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trust me, I have been tempted, especially since my brother is currently worth a cool $800,000 thanks to his entrepreneurial efforts. Especially since that amount of money could pay for my Harvard education at least six times over. It is enough to make even me, someone without even the wherewithal to create my own Web page, be tempted to learn what IPO means...
...wouldn't listen to all of that. I said earlier that life isn't about money, and that life is about learning. So eat in every dining hall, meet your classmates, pay attention in the classes and in general soak up the atmosphere. You are a dry sponge--it is not necessary to save the world just yet, or dominate it either...
...still elite, list of Americans who have opted out of the joys of flying with commercial airlines. She recently bought a share in a private plane because her favorite nephew told her it would be a good idea. The nephew, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, thinks many more people will pay to avoid cooling their heels at gates and cramping their backsides into uncomfortable seats in the air. Buffett spent $725 million last year to acquire Executive Jet Aviation, operator of NetJets, which created a business in fractional ownership of aircraft. With revenues projected at $900 million for 1998 and climbing...
...example, lie the subcategories of associative memory--the phenomenon that famously led Pavlov's dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, which they had learned to associate with food--and of habituation, in which we unconsciously file away unchanging features of the environment so we can pay closer attention to what's new and different upon encountering a new experience...
...addition to taking individual cases, Scheck and Neufeld are lobbying for more systemic change. They want other states to adopt laws like New York's, creating a right to post-conviction DNA testing and requiring the state to pay if the inmate can't afford the $3,000 to $5,000 cost. They also want laws requiring prosecutors to keep DNA evidence at least as long as a defendant remains in jail. Now prosecutors are generally free to throw away biological evidence when they want...