Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vegas betting on a football game call the over and under-meaning a bet on whether the final score of a football game will be above or below a certain number of points. Leeson was betting the over on the Nikkei 225. If he had been betting the Super Bowl and he went the wrong way on the over-under, he would have lost the amount of his original wager and no more. In the futures market traders only have to put a small percentage on the table--in Singapore, until last week, it was 6%--so losses can exceed...
Open any fashion magazine and you're bound to find a full-page layout of some super-skinny woman, or muscle-rippling man clad in only the bare minimum. According to these magazines, it's no longer be fashionable to wear the flower-or paisley-print underwear that comes in a six pack. Underwear has fallen into the same label-conscious category of jeans; most of them look the same, but everyone wants to have the right name stitched across their waist...
...Currier. "The Quad is new and spacious and not kind of old and scary like the River houses," said Chris J. Nicholson '97, an advocate of Cabot House's new public access FAX and other "friendly and expansive" facilities. "We're close to the Q-RAC; that's a super-bonus...and we have tennis courts...
...come the second-half buzzer, that all changed. Perhaps the extended halftime that honored Harvard's departing seniors gave the Crimson enough time to be super-charged, or maybe the flowers and applause given to the five seniors psychologically picked up the team...
...excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very real sense, cosmology has only lately crossed the dividing line from theology into true science...