Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of running money professionally, I always marveled at how few people could predict the direction of the next point or two. Irrational factors, chance motions and temporary buy-and-sell imbalances are almost impossible to forecast...
Nevertheless, a considerable day-trading industry has blossomed predicated upon the notion that technology and low commissions have simplified the task of catching that next point...
Fewer offenses, Donohue and Levitt point out, are being perpetrated by people ages 24 and younger--those born after abortion was legalized. Increased abortions, they add, reduced the number of "unwanted" children born to teenage, unmarried and poor women--children considered most likely to commit crimes as adults...
...same kitchen would bicker, and of course we didn't. From the minute we started cooking together we got on really well. And our experiences as the show became successful were so strange. In America we were greeted, much to my surprise, with great glee. At one point we were the fourth best-selling book in Los Angeles. They can only have read it for pornography, we thought--they live off lettuce leaves! When we were at a lunch in Australia, there were these 800 people waving their table napkins around and cheering. I remember we looked at each other...
...wing onslaughts, in the courts or at the polls, that have outlawed the use of racial preferences in California, Washington and other states. That's why so much is riding on two lawsuits filed by whites who claim that they were denied admission to Michigan because of their race, pointing out that some black applicants with lower test scores and grade-point averages were admitted. If affirmative action at Michigan can't survive these assaults, it's probably doomed at every other state campus in the nation...