Word: trailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...orderly” discussion at a time when the presidential campaign “is going into hyper speed.” Shaheen said it is important for the political contenders to establish “markers”—landmarks along the campaign trail including endorsements, donations, or position papers that signal the relative strengths of presidential campaigns. “I hope this will be one of the events that helps lay down some of those markers and sets the frame for what happens in the 2008 race,” she said. Getting political advisers...
Clinton vows to do this "the Iowa way," in the intimacy of church basements and union halls. But for her that may not be so easy. Her crowds are bigger than anyone else's. So is her media entourage; her first weekend on the campaign trail was chronicled by four television networks from Japan alone. There's also the excitement that goes with being the first woman to have a real shot at a major party's presidential nomination, which means that at places like the Drake Diner in Des Moines, people brought their daughters to have their pictures taken...
...mutual funds traveled this trail of tears, Southern California math professor Ed Thorp was delivering positive, usually double-digit, returns every year to investors in the fund he launched in 1969. Thorp, probably best known for figuring out how to beat the house at blackjack, did this by programming computers to identify small price discrepancies between securities that should have been trading in tandem. Then he borrowed tons of money to bet that these discrepancies would disappear. Such strategies were off-limits to mutual funds, but Thorp's Princeton Newport Partners was a hedge fund--an unregulated investment partnership catering...
Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Russell Crowe and a host of other A-listers were working the red carpet in London's West End, waving to fans, chatting with the press - and dragging a trail through an inch of white foam. Torrential rain had reacted with a fire-retardant chemical in the carpet, making it froth up like bubble bath. As countless pairs of Jimmy Choos were ruined, their owners could only turn for the camera and smile...
Lilac quit the NSC at the end of 1983 to work as a consultant for Prince Bandar, who is the Saudi Ambassador to Washington. Tyson left in March 1983 to work for Khashoggi. The tortuous trail left by both North and Secord, now a retired Air Force general, touches virtually every mysterious point of action in the entire Iran-contra affair...