Word: sorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Securities-lending is supposed to be a sort of Christmas club of high finance. Companies like insurers, which own tons of equities and Treasury bonds that they are holding long term, lend them out short term, often overnight, to borrowers who need the shares to fulfill other commitments. For instance, if hedge funds want to sell shares short, they borrow them, putting up cash collateral that includes a small spread to the lender. Typically, the owner of the shares takes that collateral and invests it in something with low risk and of short duration, like commercial paper. The lender...
...ready to take the T home quite yet. The Engineers finally got their offensive game going, setting balls effectively and jumping out ahead for a 11-6 lead. Looking for any sort of spark, MIT and its fans were suddenly reenergized after a successful block by freshman David Thomas of a Weissbourd potential kill...
...legislation] was really this sort of thing that we were given that we had to modify,” said Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor David A. Haig, who added he would have preferred to see a distribution requirement. “I thought there was never any real serious bit of philosophical discussions of the pros and cons of different forms of general education...
Since Bok had decided to take on the presidency for a second time without being paid, and he himself had overseen the creation of the Core Curriculum, his determination to finish the curricular review was “this sort of heroic thing,” according to Menand...
...like people on drugs, these citizens of PfoHo made grand promises. 210 square foot singles. Perpetual ragers in the “Belltower.” Many mirrors lining the hallway walls. I like looking at myself, I thought. Maybe things could be bearable. Then came rooming assignments. Some sort of technology glitch must have occurred, for my roommate and I were given two adjacent cupboards under the pretense of a double. And the view from the cramped quarters inspired nothing but nostalgia in me—another year to be spent looking out on pavement and fading skid marks...