Word: pendulums
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While Harvard dominated play early, the pendulum swung towards BU as the game progressed, and the Terriers pressed the Crimson in search of the equalizer. BU outshot Harvard 10-6 for the game and 4-1 in the second half alone, when the Crimson was attacking into the afternoon...
...corporate frauds that came to light inflamed the public. Since then, bruised investors have been demanding amends. Twenty years ago, a similar rash of Wall Street fraud resulted in only a few honchos like Michael Milken going to prison, and spending less than two years there. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction. In addition to jail time, Kozlowski and Swartz must pay a total of $134 million in restitution; in addition, Kozlowski was fined $70 million, Swartz $35 million...
...going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley by extending for one year the deadline for coming into compliance. It could be that the recent string of decades-long prison sentences for white-collar criminals proves to be an extreme; the point at which the pendulum begins moving the other way again...
...decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return, to return to childhood or your 20s or 30s," says Eco, adding, "I'm fine where I am. My relationship with...
Indeed, regulators in the free-market-oriented Reagan era seem convinced that bigger is often better. "Reagan's people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the opportunity to put through deals now that they couldn't have ten years ago." A more zealous Justice Department blocked the merger of two Los Angeles grocery chains during the 1960s on the grounds that the combined firms would claim 5% of the area's food-store business. Today corporate...