Word: provenance
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...issue are a number of purported information leaks, which - if the allegations are proven true - fall into a truly special category of brazenness. For example: a Moody's bond-rating analyst sharing privileged information that the private-equity firm Blackstone was about to buy Hilton Hotels. A senior vice president at IBM handing over details of Sun Microsystems's financials, which he had access to only because IBM was contemplating buying Sun. A managing director of Intel passing along the company's revenue and profit numbers before they were publicly released and later asking his hedge-fund consort...
...techniques to authorship studies over the past century. For example, statisticians have been able to distinguish the writings of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers by manually calculating occurrences of a set of marker words. But dramatic writing, with its more constrained nature, has until now proven more difficult to crack. (See the 100 best novels of all TIME...
Tassopoulos’ early career has proven to be a trial by fire, with the Crimson taking on a number of talented non-conference teams, including UMass, Michigan, and BU in consecutive weeks. As expected, such talented opponents have created a barrage of shots, and Tassopoulos has been forced to respond. The rookie has amassed 99 saves for an average of 8.25 per game, up from Harvard’s 5.41 a year ago and good for 9th in the nation. Tassopoulos has even notched 23 saves in a single contest, at then-No.5 Connecticut on Sept...
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...August, China signed a $41 billion contract to buy liquefied natural gas over the next 20 years from Australia. Last month, China's state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) entered talks with Nigeria to buy as much as one-sixth of the West African nation's proven petroleum reserves, the Financial Times reported. This week, Guinea's junta announced a $7 billion mining deal with an unnamed Chinese company, which human-rights activists say could prop up a government implicated in a mass killing of demonstrators in September...