Word: prizes
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Merton, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on a formula that calculates the risk and value of given economic decisions, was one of 16 partners of the investment group and was directly affected by the collapse...
Another partner who was affected was Merton's Nobel prize co-winner, Stanford professor emeritus Myron Scholes...
McClelland said the Harvard open is an especially appealing tournament because the prize amounts are fixed at the beginning of the tournament, and not contingent on the number of entrants, as they are at most tournaments...
...space-tourism industry is not an entirely new concept. In 1996 a team of entrepreneurs based in St. Louis, Mo., formed an organization called the X Prize Foundation and offered a $10 million award to the first designer to develop a ship able to take passengers into space. The trip the sponsors envision is not much--a suborbital lob shot that would barely nick the skin of space. But a little outer space is still outer space, and since the prize was announced, 15 groups have submitted blueprints...
Maybe. But one man's vision is another man's fever dream, and to X Prize engineers struggling to achieve a popgun suborbital, Aldrin's ideas may sound loopy. Undaunted, Aldrin and ShareSpace have come up with a plan to raise the capital they need. For $10 or so, contestants could enter a sweepstakes qualifying them to win a range of space-related prizes, including a ride aboard a zero-gravity training plane or a trip in a MiG-25 to the edge of space. Any money left over would be used for the group's advocacy...