Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance. His legacy has touched every American with a home loan, a credit card or a checkbook. And it has not only made consolidators like McColl and Weill possible--it has also made them essential and inevitable...
...WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--In a land that prides itself on the freedom that rings from every hilltop, the first amendment rights of University Republicans have been violated. The group used an offensive poster to promote a discussion on feminism, in which they invited all "Feminazis" to attend. The majority of these advertisements were ripped off the bulletin boards by outraged students who resented the Republicans' word choice, leaving freedom of speech a debatable issue rather than a Constitutional right...
...lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some of the imagery is old and pat, as when Garrison compares a married couple to a pair of birds on a telephone wire, but much of it is new and cheeky: "Sometimes it's funny, this after-hour when/ whatever hasn't happened between us/ hasn't happened again..." As Garrison's book proves, not all good poems are hard poems, and sometimes the lines you can hum are also the lines...
...WIRE) ST. LOUIS, Mo.--Leaders of the Association of Black Students (ABS), backed by a vocal crowd of several hundred students, faculty and staff, called on the university to increase minority representation in a rally held on the steps of Brookings Hall midday Monday...
Some of the Senators on the Judiciary Committee may not have heard of the Gates Library Foundation, which helps wire libraries to the Internet. So they were surprised when phone calls started coming in to their offices with the good news from one of Bill Gates' charitable trusts. The callers just wanted the Senators to know that the foundation had donated generously to libraries in their states--$1.67 million, all told...