Word: realm
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...relatively conservative field of endowment management, where each university's goal is primarily to maintain its economic standing, Harvard is seen as a large and sometimes brash investor. The University was among the first to become involved in the realm of venture capital and leveraged buyouts (LBO), both of which offer high yields on investment, but at a high risk...
...difficult to predict whether other Asian-American groups will follow the lead of AAA and eventually enter the realm of politics. But Asian-Americans say that until they can find a unified voice, the clubs will keep quiet on Asian affairs...
...active in student government. But he says he wanted to study mathematics until spring semester of his junior year in high school, which he spent working for U.S. Rep. Tom Carper (D-Del.) The experience, he says, gave him the idea that people could make a difference in the realm of politics--an idea which he says he has tried to apply to the council...
...life by the appealing Marco Leonardi), he conducts his first and, as it turns out, only great love affair with the remote Elena (Agnese Nano) as if it were an old-fashioned movie romance, something like one of those doomy weepers Garbo used to do. Poor Toto. In this realm he has only screen conventions to guide...
MADE IN U.S.A. may not have the cachet it once had, but in the realm of antiques, the phrase is coming to mean extraordinary value for well-fixed investors. When two tiny, exquisite 18th century Philadelphia tables were auctioned at Christie's in Manhattan last Saturday, the prices they fetched were breathtaking. The first item, a dainty piecrust tea table, sold for $1.2 million; the second, a rectangular pier table less than 3 ft. high, was whisked from the block for $4.6 million...