Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain, for example, a strict distinction between investing in stocks and trading them--and so should you. My hedge fund is divided into two roughly equal pools of money. The investing side is run in the old-fashioned Benjamin Graham-Warren Buffett tradition of seeking value, mainly among small stocks like savings and loans. Here I approach each investment as if I'm buying the company: I carefully research the financials, management, customers and competitors. I don't have to know when the stock price will rise, only that it will. I don't talk about it much, but historically...
...academies is nothing new, nor is marriage--once graduation is over. Thus, the service's decision to let the couple graduate with full honors is sparking waves of controversy in the barracks of the academy, at military bases and along Pentagon corridors, where some fear the academy's once strict regulations are becoming a loose, case-by-case catalog...
Clearly Amos has some issues. Much of the religious skepticism that pervades her thought as well as her music is a reaction to her strict upbringing (she was born in Newton, N.C., and her father was a Methodist minister). In addition, the sexual-assault theme in several of her earlier songs, including Me and a Gun, derives from an incident 13 years ago in which Amos was raped by a member of her audience whom she had offered to drive home. She is a co-founder of the Washington group RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network...
...study abroad and I joined the tens of people in the Office of Career Services Study Abroad meetings (in comparison with the literally thousands of juniors at other schools spending time abroad and getting credit). Yet soon I felt a semester would not be enough, given Harvard's strict curricular requirements abroad. And so, approved program and all, I am starting down a different road...
...suspect in many circles; the more politically correct--or at least clinical--term is erectile dysfunction, or ED, as it is commonly abbreviated. Inspired by a 1992 National Institutes of Health Conference and landmark 1994 study on the problem, the diagnosis has been defined more broadly, from the rather strict criterion of inability to get an erection, period, to the somewhat more elastic and subjective criterion of inability to get an erection adequate for "satisfactory sexual performance." This has led to a tripling of the number of men estimated to be impotent in this country--some 30 million according...