Word: referents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trillion dollars in mortgages is now bound up in mortgage-backed securities, up from zero two decades ago. All told, there's a huge speculative overlay on stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the underlying." These abstract concoctions are floating over the real world of stocks, bonds, corn and hogs in the same way that the island of Laputa, that fanciful domain of theorizers and stargazers, floated over real towns and villages in Gulliver's Travels...
...result is that if we want to supply the campus with recycled paper (and by that I refer not to the "recycled" paper so labeled under lax regulations, but rather to paper with a considerable post-consumer waste content), it is not possible to make volume deals which would both reduce our cost and improve the market by generating sizable demand. President Rudenstine has made the environment a test case for interschool cooperation at the University, but to be effective he must expand this cooperation beyond the curriculum...
However it seems that Cachan is not willing to grant the same courtesy he demands for Latino students to their white peers, Several times, he uses the term "Anglo" to refer to all white Americans...
...single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals," then go on to refer to man's capacity to use fire, laugh (you might have also mentioned cry) and reason as "any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications." You call these oversimplifications? Good Lord! These entirely human capacities not only constitute essential differences between us and the animals but are crucial to understanding the uniquely human predicament. We are, as Shakespeare said, the "paragon of animals" precisely because we possess the capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality...
...term bill imbroglio points to a fundamental failure of representation on the Undergraduate Council. In regard to both the term bill increase and calendar reform, former council Chair Michael P. Beys has observed that the council is a representative body and hence has no need to refer anything to student referendum...