Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must have sent out 200 e-mails lastSeptember alone," said Danganan, whose term alsobegan slowly. "We just had to persevere...
...Long Term Capital suddenly lose money after years of winning? Short answer: the fund's investing formulas were blindsided by the financial meltdown that has spread so rapidly from Asia to Russia and Latin America. In essence, Meriwether's computers were programmed with historical relationships among various global bond yields and other financial instruments. They looked for discrepancies in those relationships and bet that they would return to their historical norms. But the deepening global crisis caused a flight to the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds, which drove up prices that Meriwether's computers said should be falling. The resulting...
...know there about personal finance and investing. You can buy stocks and mutual funds through a discount online-trading account, either at thestreet.com or through links to other investing sites through time.com/personal But don't let the low cost and convenience make you forget you're a long-term investor. If you lack the time or inclination to do it yourself, by all means seek a fee-only financial planner or full-service broker. But understand that you'll pay more through fees, commissions or both...
DIED. MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, 86, consummate political wife and, briefly, a U.S. Senator; in Minneapolis, Minn. When Hubert H. Humphrey launched his political career in 1945, Brown campaigned next to him. She broke the spouse-as-campaign-prop mold during Humphrey's three bids for President and his term as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking out on such issues as the rights of the mentally disabled...
When Czech president Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told Madeleine Albright that he had a novel idea: When his current term ends, she should become president of the Czech Republic. As secretary of state, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence...