Word: vanguards
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Quants have been on Wall Street since the 1970s and have been popular with institutional investors like pension funds since the tech bubble burst in 2000. In the past few years, the run-of-the-mill investing public has started to catch on while fund companies like Vanguard, Janus and Charles Schwab have beefed up quant offerings...
...didn't feel part of a vanguard, or more adult for "getting" Lenny. I just thought the guy was funny. Similarly, I found the breadth and pungency of his stuff startling but not really shocking. So far as I recall, it didn't upset other members of my middle-class Catholic family, since the only record player was in the dining room, where anyone could hear or overhear the LPs, and nobody gave me an angry shout to turn that junk off. So, by applying contemporary community standards (our house), I'd rule that Lenny Bruce was not obscene...
...clearly unprepared for a sudden influx of a new population of HIV patients: middle-aged and even elderly people surviving with the disease into their later decades. Nearly 27% of people living with AIDS in the U.S. are 50 or older--a proportion that is expected to increase. This vanguard group must confront the ordinary ailments of age complicated by the extraordinary ferocity of the AIDS virus...
...comprised of American Jews who make a significant effort in their daily lives to bend U.S. foreign policy so that it advances Israel’s interests.”Their thesis was enthusiastically adopted by some embarrassing—and unwelcome—allies.One white supremacist organization, National Vanguard, reprinted excerpts from the essay and distributed them on the University’s campus along with a flyer proclaiming the dangers of interracial sex. There were also aspersions cast on the information presented in the article.For instance, Walt and Mearsheimer characterize Israeli citizenship as a “blood...
...short-selling records." Everyone remarked on Dylan's lyric gift and driving ambition. After just a few months, and before he was 20, he had scored his first professional gig in the Village (a supporting act to blues singer John Lee Hooker). Rejected by the traditional labels, Folkways and Vanguard (whose A&R man said, "We don't record freaks"), he made an odder move: being signed by legendary producer John Hammond for Mitch Miller's Columbia Records. Miller called Dylan "Hammond's folly...