Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prices rise, the arbitrager will make a handsome return upon selling the shares; the money lost on the futures side of the transaction will not be enough to offset the profit because the price at which the futures were sold was overly high to start with. In the opposite scenario, falling stock prices will cause the trader to lose money on the stocks but more than make up for that loss on the sale of the overpriced futures. The deal is often called a perfect hedge because any money lost by one side of the equation will be more than...
Quick quiz: where have you encountered this scenario before...
...scenario on the cover of a recent issue of The New Republic might be better understood if someone asked the following question: what if the young Black man at the door of the jewelry store was not a thief? Well, then he, like most Blacks who would have been in such a situation, probably was somebody with the means to make purchases at a jewelry store and not likely to be a food stamps-carrying member of the urban underclass...
...short, the jewelry store scenario hardly deserves to be graced with the term "ethical dilemma." Yet the issues raised encompass more than the individual rights of minority groups. The racism inherent in Cohen's words involves something much more fundamental than class differences or fear of crime. It is a racism that strikes every Black person regardless of class, status, education or integrity. Camille Caesar...
Once the contras are firmly established on Nicaraguan soil, Washington might recognize them as a provisional government-in-arms. Such a scenario, which would require the U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, has been rumored for the past two years. But the Sandinistas apparently are growing more worried. Two weeks ago Carlos Tunnermann, the capable Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington, gave up that post to become his country's representative to the Organization of American States. Says one U.S. official: "They don't want to lose him, in case the embassy here gets shut down...