Word: trend
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Arbitrage used to mean the practice of profiting from the difference between the buying and selling price of stocks. But in the last several years a much more glamorous and speculative form has emerged, known as "risk arbitrage." Stock is still bought and sold, but the trend is to concentrate on companies undergoing some sort of restructing--for example, a merger or acquisition. In essence, it is a short term, high risk gamble that change will occur and hence influence the price of stock...
...here and elsewhere, is simply political expediency. There has grown up a feeling among liberal institutions that whenever a putatively aggrieved group whispers "jump," society must ask, "How high, and where do we land?" The rout before the Women's Studies adherents is only a symptom of this larger trend...
Many cite the development of parallel leagues in football and hockey as evidence of a trend toward academics over athletics. The Colonial League, a consortium of private colleges with similar academic philosophies and geographic locations, began play this fall after agreeing to accept Ivy League-type standards, including a ban on athletic scholarships...
...wake of the impressive successes that Canada's richest families have scored in the U.S., growing numbers of smaller investors are expected to look southward as well. Last week the U.S. Government encouraged that trend by sponsoring three "Invest in the U.S.A." seminars in Canada, at which lawyers and accountants dispensed tips on how to get started in business in the U.S. Twenty-five states participated, hoping to lure Canadian investment. In a new version of the old wintertime travel advertisements for Florida aimed at shivering Northerners, the U.S. is telling Canada, "Come on down!" More and more Canadians...
...results did not constitute the sweeping trend toward a realignment of regional politics that Republicans had sought. Defying tidy analysis, eleven states chose candidates from opposing parties for Senator and Governor. Unlike the Senate contests, the Governors' races found the Democrats far more vulnerable: 27 of 36 seats at stake had been held by Democrats. Yet in the West, where eight Democratic executive mansions were at risk, Republicans managed a net gain of only...