Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wall Street rocket scientists and putting it into the hands of consumers or even inexperienced bankers is hardly a riskless activity. "Banks have been making less and less money from traditional lines of business," says Douglas Gale, an economics professor at New York University who is considered a leading thinker about next-generation finance. "What they have found lucrative is designing derivatives. But if you're using derivatives and you don't understand the technology or you don't know what you're doing, there is a real danger here. It's like letting a child play with a nuclear...
...educational system aimed at training a future generation of Chilean communists according to Marxist rules. Our parents would not have been able to bring up their children according to their own principles and convictions. Without Pinochet, I would not be a Catholic, a believer in democracy or the free thinker that I am today. M. CRISTINA VALENZUELA DE DOMIC Sao Paulo...
Mansfield, who is Kenan Professor ofGovernment, began his remarks by calling Connerly"a great black thinker" and lauded him forstanding up for his views. "The greatest blackthinkers have always disagreed," he said...
...time I got to college, though, I'd decided that I wanted to be a history professor. I was excited by the prospect of ensconcing myself in Widener Library behind a hard wooden desk, poring over the relatively obscure works of Nicolo Machiavelli, illuminating the great thinker's inner thoughts...
...reputation [among students in his class] is to be a deep thinker, [rather than] someone who would do arithmetical computations off the top of his head," Dasgupta says...