Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Propositions have remained popular; they have made politics matter in California. They are debated over all the channels of communication: they have spawned flashy billboards and commercials in prime time, slogans on buttons and biting bumper stickers on the endless stream of cars on the freeway. Taking numbers alone as an indicator, the proposition has grown in importance, as the last two elections have brought 23 measures for voters to consider. In 1996 alone, proposition votes have legalized the medical use of marijuana (Prop. 215), and ended affirmative action (Prop. 209), while the 1994 end of basic education and health...
...common stock in a company that invests in bonds. That stock goes up and down along with the value of the company's assets, which in this case are mostly bonds but sometimes include exotic derivative securities. Clearly, investors seeking to preserve capital and earn a fixed-income stream for a set period of time have no business flirting with such a beast. They should go for individual bonds. Yet bond funds are routinely marketed and accepted as apt substitutes...
What is less encouraging is the motivation of those that function as the intermediates between Harvard and its stream of tourists. Why would one want to be a member of the Crimson Key? Livelli answers, "A good reason would be to demonstrate your love to the university and develop your sense of history, etc. A real reason would be because there tends to be a good number of good-looking girls in the Key compared; oh no, I can't say that. I am going to make a lot of enemies with this interview...
...seniors, we are currently feeling the pressure: recruiting season is well underway and already busy schedules are punctuated by interviews. Many companies have given offers and are awaiting decisions, law and medical school acceptances (or rejections) have begun to trickle (or, in some cases, stream) in and, for some of us, the realization has just hit that it is time to start looking...
...then there's the North Atlantic oscillation, which makes El Nino's effect on the eastern U.S. as unpredictable as its influence over Brazil. This climate system, says Gerry Bell of the Climate Prediction Center, changes the position of the jet stream over the ocean. Until recently, the North Atlantic oscillation, which strongly influences Europe's weather as well, was considered to be primarily a manifestation of the atmosphere. But researcher Michael McCartney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution thinks it too is heavily influenced by the sea--in this case by an ocean gyre, a surface current that follows...