Word: sized
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...result: in just three decades, the volume of derivative contracts with U.S. commercial banks exploded, from practically zero in the early 1970s to more than $25 trillion today, an amount exceeding the size of the U.S., European and Japanese economies combined. Bankers quickly, and appropriately, point out that this figure really represents just the "notional" amount, or face value of the derivatives, and not what they could potentially lose. But the amount due, or at risk, is derived (hence derivative) from those vast notional amounts...
John Holum, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, was even more hyperbolic. Less than two months ago, he urged the Senate to ratify the CTBT, calling it a "historic opportunity ... to finally ban nuclear-weapons testing of any size by anyone anywhere forever...
...must make a very concerted effort to raisemoney for the Graduate School," Pedersen said inan interview last night. "We simply need moreresources to have competitive programs of anappropriate size...
...employer] is a guy, and he has ablond, size double-D in front of him and findsthat attractive, that definitely is part of hisassessment," she says. "It's sad. Some people willalways have an advantage on that side if they'renot completely dumb...
...Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school vouchers, statewide-testing standards and class-size reduction. "The most urgent need for 226 was to combat the ability of the teachers' union to kill education reform," he says...