Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really spooked the Fed was indications that Long Term Capital had off-balance sheet derivative contracts with a value of more than $1 trillion. Derivatives are financial instruments that bet on the future direction of interest rates, stock indexes or currencies. Defaults representing less than 1% of that whopping sum could have sunk the fund and punished banks and investment firms around the world...
...couple of caveats for would-be Washington millionaires: The six-zero sum gets paid out only when and if Hustler publishes your salacious story, and Flynt reserves the right to shift the deadline forward. Assuming he doesn't, however, the offer expires on May 1, 1999 -- which gives money-hungry Monicas everywhere plenty of time to initiate the affair and get the photos developed. Interns, start your engines...
...zero-sum world, the exploitation of loopholes and the pulling of strings secure great benefits to those who are able to do so: the affluent and the educated. Ultimately, we have institutions and systems to keep personal jockeying from interfering with social functions that we believe should be impartial and impersonal. And I find it troubling that Harvard, as a collective culture, is teaching its students not to refine and improve the fairness of the systems they come into contact with, but rather to regard these systems as obstacles in the way of their own personal fulfillment...
...Starr report, six-term Democrat David Skaggs of Colorado said, "I'm not sure we have a proper basis for impeachment, but I'm pretty sure the effectiveness of this presidency is pretty well destroyed." A six-term Midwestern lawmaker could barely finish his sentences as he tried to sum up his feelings, but he said he suspected Clinton would pull through. "I don't think this is impeachment, but that could turn as this report sinks in." Another Democrat said he was "personally outraged" by Clinton's behavior, but added that Starr lacked all sense of proportion...
...entire sum of outside scholarships will also now be put toward a reduction of a student's tuition burden. Under the old system, students could keep just 40 cents of every dollar won. The new system will relieve some of the burden currently placed on students to fund their own education through work or loans...