Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golden days have not returned for the firm, where management must now report to an oversight committee. The original investors, relegated to a measly 10% share of the fund, have recovered only a sliver of their pre-August stakes. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether Long Term Capital violated securities laws by withholding information on its financial health. Moreover, the entire debacle may prompt long-term changes in the hedge-fund industry: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is examining whether such funds should be more closely regulated. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York...
...sarcastically] Oh sure, I've been great in Sliver and Backdraft and The Hunt for Red October...
...supposed to listen to polls. But they are not supposed to rely solely on personal conscience either. The people should guide politicians' actions, and the framers of the Constitution established a mechanism for them to do so: voting. There is an election in six weeks. And the sliver of people who will actually vote in it are quite disposed to move toward impeachment. These are the people to whom the Republicans are rightly listening...
...President's political team was waving polls all over Capitol Hill last week that showed his approval rating unshaken by the Starr report. But the opinion that matters at this juncture belongs to a sliver of Americans: those who tend to vote in midterm elections and live in the 30 to 40 congressional districts where, for now, Democrats and Republicans still have a real contest...
WASHINGTON: For the family of Martin Luther King Jr., a sliver of satisfaction: Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she will reopen the investigation of the assassination of the civil rights leader in the hopes of answering the 30-year-old question: Did James Earl Ray act alone? But TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe says that because of the investigation's limited scope -- only new evidence and witnesses allowed -- the chance of obtaining more satisfying answers are slim...