Word: summing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silent Blessings" seems to have been blessed indeed, but amassing the funds and resources to accomplish the task at hand was difficult. Under the auspices of their newly formed organization, Park pointed out, the producers could obtain grants from the Harvard Foundation and the Undergraduate Council. This sum, is addition to donations from alumni and Lowell House, provided one-third of the funding. The rest came from personal sources...
...starting to see her as progressive, upbeat, and mainstream. Instead of conveying distrust, Guinier now calls up the optimistic belief that America can get past the "poison of racism" with the right reforms. This Lani Guinier ends her new book with a plea for racial healing, public dialogue, positive-sum solutions, moving the country forward, and further progress "towards Martin Luther King's vision of a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin...
...This is a positive-sum solution," saidGuinier. "It is neither a radical or undemocraticsolution...
Derivatives, which are based on such real assets as stocks and bonds, work like most professional betting games. They have a zero-sum outcome, always producing a winner and a loser. The bettors put up their money, and the people who run the casino -- a bank, a brokerage house or an insurance company -- figure out ways to pass on the risks. Companies use derivatives to hedge against changes in interest rates, foreign-exchange rates and commodities prices. Mutual funds and pension funds use them to protect their stock and bond investments. Major banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies write them...
...heart surgery; in Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...