Word: unexpectedness
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Financial markets have had the wind at their backs for the last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that...
Some of Emaar's success is explained by the nearly 300% rise in oil prices since 1997, which is pumping vast sums of unexpected new revenue into Arab investments. But much of it is also due to the savvy of executives like Alabbar, who can put Emaar's clout to...
To an American middle-class professional of the 21st century, what is scariest about brain surgery isn't the ever present risk of disaster or even the chance of unexpected side effects. It's the danger that people will look at you differently. We are all brain snobs, and we...
To an American middle-class professional of the 21st century, what is scariest about brain surgery isn't the ever present risk of disaster or even the chance of unexpected side effects. It's the danger that people will look at you differently. We are all brain snobs, and we...
The tests administered under the oft-maligned Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) came in for some unexpected praise last week when a California research institute released a report comparing the tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test used to create a national baseline.