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...Bloom ’12, the assistant financial manager for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, entered the bank just after the man left. She was the only customer in the lobby when she entered the bank, and she was depositing a large sum of money at the counter when she noticed the teller who was counting her money drastically slowing down. Bloom said she saw that her teller was distracted by another teller’s facial expression...
...purchases on the McDonald’s dollar menu, 44 trips on the subway with a CharlieCard, 37 loads of clean laundry, 15 one-scoop waffle cones at JP Licks, a full magical day of fun at Disneyland, or maybe even a flight home. This sum is also the amount that students are charged on their termbills each semester by Harvard to fund student groups and support the activities of the Undergraduate Council...
...topmost in the ecosystem. Unfortunately, this hole also makes us demand - nonstop. If humans keep damaging the environment in attempts to fill the void without any regrets, one day we will be engulfed by it. Endangering tuna is just a tiny problem when compared to the sum of so many others. Do not regret when it is too late; each of us should try to do something for our lovely earth. Christopher Chan, Hong Kong...
...Prechter studied Dow theory but soon moved on to the mostly forgotten work of Ralph Nelson Elliott, an accountant who, while bedridden in the 1930s, charted stock-price movements and found intricate patterns based on the Fibonacci number sequence (in which, after 0 and 1, each number is the sum of the previous two: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.). The Fibonacci series, like pi, appears frequently in nature. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...benefit as assets are identified and recovered. Tech Mahindra bought a 47.2% stake in the tainted company for $600 million in a government auction in April. If the fraud money reappears as assets in the name of the company, its good news for Tech Mahindra, which paid a huge sum for Satyam and its liabilities, says Suresh Talwar, partner at Mumbai-based law firm Talwar Thakore & Associates, Satyam's corporate counsel until 2006. It could be a bonanza for shareholders, too, in the form of dividends or bonus shares, he says. Judging by the scale of the fraud and India...