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...banned from selling their company stock during blackout periods when workers can't make changes to their 401(k) accounts. As for diversification, it also forces companies that use their own stock to match employees' contributions to allow workers to sell that stock after three years. (Enron's threshold was a penny-pinching...
...book, Confessions of a Street Addict, you learn why he gave up trading for a living. Basically, Cramer got fed up with Cramer--not liking the obsessed lunatic he'd become and deciding to quit before he went certifiably bonkers. A lot of folks thought he had passed that threshold long...
...more intractable problem, and, according to Tim Smith, a Seattle treatment specialist who works with sex offenders, it may affect fewer than 10% of the child abusers in the U.S. The true pedophile is drawn to children not merely incidentally but exclusively. Most pedophiles target kids in the threshold years before puberty, but some look further down the age spectrum, seeking out even toddlers. Pedophiles who prefer preadolescents often court them with the ardor of a suitor, lavishing attention, praise and gifts on the child they have chosen. Typically they tell themselves that the relationship is a mutually beneficial...
...teachers on holiday with a big pile to get through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind...
Half of Harvard undergraduates surveyed by The Crimson in January 2001 reported drinking enough to be classified as binge drinkers, while one-fifth said they abstained from drinking. One-quarter of Harvard’s binge drinkers met Wechsler’s threshold for frequent binge drinking, according to The Crimson survey...