Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what about the "slow" part? For the investor looking to realize returns, will you ever get there? Yes, says Mark A. Finser, Founder/General Partner of TBL Capital in Sausalito, CA. As a "snapshot of a short period of time" the conventional investment model may look good, but "I fundamentally believe that in the long run there will be better returns" with Slow Money type investments, he says. This is particularly true, he adds, when "we look at investing as an extension of our lives and values." He notes that RSF Social Finance, which invests in enterprises committed to improving society...
...epidemic and asked Washington for financial help - the Agriculture Department announced last week a $30 million purchase of surplus pork. That brings the federal total of pork purchases for fiscal 2009 to about $150 million, or close to $100 million more than last year's figure for the same period. During a Sept. 10 morning press conference, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack also said he would work with fellow Cabinet secretaries in the Defense, Justice and Education departments to encourage pork purchases on military bases, in prisons and in schools...
...marked by innovative precision and great affection for the subject matter. Sometimes Hoffmann is blatantly avant-garde. Titled doodles highlight seemingly random phrases from the text, there are no page numbers to be found, and the speaker adopts the royal “we” for a period (though not without specifying parenthetically each time that what he means is “I”). But the work is so moving not because of these eccentricities but rather because of the artfulness with which Hoffmann articulates the smallest events. “Stairwells make us weep...
...delivered its first blow to Harvard and went on to massacre the visiting Crimson, 5-1. Harvard’s lone goal resulted from the work of its current co-captains–Akpan headed in classmate Brian Grimm’s free kick early in the first period. “[BU] beat us pretty badly last year, so they’ll be an element of trying to get a little bit of revenge,” Harvard Coach Jamie Clark said. “That will be the biggest game of our early part of the season?...
...library to the rise of online collectives like Wikipedia and Facebook. Usually it has been an invention, some innovation in commerce - the car, the lightbulb, the television - that has changed how we interact with one another as well as how we think of ourselves. We are again entering a period of social change as Americans are recalibrating our sense of what it means to be a citizen, not just through voting or volunteering but also through commerce: by what we buy. There is a new dimension to civic duty that is growing in America - it's the idea that...