Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm's back office--a combination that enabled him to conceal the true nature of the transactions. But unlike Leeson, who has remained in a German jail while Singapore continues its effort to extradite him, Iguchi traded nothing more exotic than U.S. Treasury securities. They are "as plain-vanilla a financial instrument as you can find," notes Marc Cohen, managing director at the Hermes Capital hedge-fund firm. That very simplicity should have made the fraud relatively easy to spot...
...assuming that computers always maximize efficiency and utility. Those of us who use computers periodically (i.e. 99 percent of us here at Harvard) know that this is not the case. Computers will break, entice you into wasting time exploring the Internet or playing solitaire, and will sometimes be just plain slower than doing things by hand...
...message and my comedy is plain and simple. It's about peace and love," he said. "There's a lot of love on this corner today. Most of it is love for the sound of my own voice...
...guide us in creating a multiracial society." But judging by the initial 100,000 press run, the largest by far in the company's history, the Free Press also sees D'Souza as a moneymaker and is willing to profiteer on the obscene ideas he has packaged in the plain brown wrapper of specious scholarship...
...solve it. But such a dialogue stands little chance of being productive if it is polluted by the nonsense D'Souza is peddling. Those who want to deal honestly with race can begin by boycotting his book--not because it's politically incorrect, but because it is just plain wrong...