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...SCREW CAPS AND GLASS STOPPERS Influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has predicted that by 2015 more wines will be opened with the twist of a wrist than the pull of a cork. Screw caps eliminate the oxidation and taint problems, are simple to open--no corkscrew required!--and reseal easily. After decades of being associated with cheap wine, they're finally overcoming their image problem. New Zealand already closes more than 80% of its wines with screw caps. The French even use them on a few prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies...
...happens. Things go well and we get our carry— usually about 20 percent of the profits. If things don’t go well, we still get the fees. In a big fund like ours, the industry average of 3 percent goes a long way. If we screw up, we liquidate the fund, return the diminished capital, and start the whole thing all over again. It’s a win-win-win. Q: So to get more fees, you always want to get bigger? A: Exactly. Q: But doesn’t getting bigger require riskier positions...
...clearly frightened of losing. You can smell the fear on her. It wafts around her like a cheap perfume: Eau de Don't Let Me Screw Up and Flush My Chances Down the Toilette. As a result of her fear of losing and the soul-sapping tyranny of trying to please and placate everybody, she's become more processed than Velveeta. You can almost see every word that comes out of her mouth first being marched through the different compartments of her brain - analyzed, evaluated, and vetted by each of them. What will the consultants think of this? How will...
...possess aristocratic Anne Stanton (Kate Winslet), daughter of the state's last great Governor and the woman Burden has impotently loved his entire life. It is just that she is there--blond, vulnerable and an all-too-symbolic representative of the class he can never join but has to screw any way that...
...Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 2. A verb: He was “ad-boarded” for getting really drunk and pushing his proctor out of the fifth-floor window (see Proctor...