Word: slices
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...Strata's case there is no stack. Instead, BofA imagined it had invested $1 billion in the bonds of 75 different companies, and then pretended that Strata wrote insurance against a $20 billion slice. BofA bankers placed Strata toward the bottom, in order to justify its relatively high yield...
...highly entertaining--questions. Does expensive wine really taste better than the cheap stuff, or are we biased by the price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than we do when paying with cash? How can we simultaneously desire a healthy diet and quickly devour the slice of chocolate cake in front of us? And what does it really mean when we experience a sudden, inexplicable gut feeling about something? While we can't always control (or understand, for that matter) what our brain tells us, Lehrer writes, we can learn when to rely on reason and when...
...Biggie) if not always the proper gravitas. And while he may not have Wallace’s deep voice or charisma, he often nails the cadences of Biggie’s flow and delivers a convincing and emotionally candid performance. “Notorious” spends a substantial slice of its running time as a romantic dramedy. After fathering a daughter with his high school girlfriend, Wallace had a lengthy relationship with fiery rapper Lil’ Kim (Naturi Naughton) and subsequently married agreeable R&B singer Faith Evans (Antonique Smith). Both actresses do a decent job of playing...
...says Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "It seems to me that Obama is very likely to embrace the Senate approach. Will Pelosi go along with Obama or join the House liberals in trying to maintain the party's wish list as a big slice of the stimulus bill...
...situation didn’t call for a firearm of any kind, and neither claim can justify the cold-blooded murder. More importantly, the execution of Oscar Grant is not an isolated incident. It is one slice out of a contemporary history of racism against minorities by law enforcement officers. Systemic racism is as American as apple...