Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across from co-host Matt Lauer and challenged the press to pay attention to a different story: "this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President." She shone the light on Starr--his agenda, his henchmen, his ideological gene pool--and suggested that this was the real story, the real danger, rather than anything her husband might have done...
Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...World Fund is one of two student-run mutual funds at Harvard, together with the more exclusive Charles River Growth Fund. Like commercial funds, both let members pool their money and diversify their investments, reducing the burden of risks that individual investors might shy away from...
Charles River is a "high-risk" mutual fund with 27 undergraduate members who pool their money to invest primarily in foreign and domestic low-cap equities--smaller, startup companies, as opposed to established blue chip giants like General Electric...
While the number of Harvard students selected for the scholarship is down from last year's eight, officials in the fellowships office at the Office of Career Services (OCS) attribute the drop to annual fluctuations and not to weakness in this year's applicant pool...