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...John Moody became the first financial analyst to assign letter grades to railroad bonds, giving investors an easier way to evaluate the rail companies' debt. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful forces in modern capitalism. Today a small club of bond-rating agencies, led by Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, wields enormous power, sending investors scrambling simply by changing the ratings that the firms assign to everything from Ireland's sovereign debt to General Electric's IOUs. They are pilloried for having wildly overestimated the quality of mortgage-related securities...
Pfoho resident dean Lisa Boes said that the issue of shoddy reception was brought to the fore at the beginning of this academic year, in light of last semester’s muggings in Cambridge Common—crimes that prompted the Harvard University Police Department to assign several additional officers to the Quad...
...only exacerbated our societal obsession with affixing arbitrary labels to relationships and calculating our self-worth accordingly. For many women, “boyfriends” serve as status symbols, offering definitive proof of one’s capability to find a mate and achieve monogamous bliss; failure to assign that label can result in the abandonment of a healthy relationship for more “promising” prospects. This growing imperative to classify, and the anxiety over other peoples’ assumptions when that classification is inevitably removed, has changed the meaning of modern intimacy. Digesting complicated interpersonal...
There were no female sportswriters when I faced Bobby Riggs in 1973. It was a sign of the times that many editors--like Mary's--didn't see the need to assign a female sportswriter. I have always wished that Mary could have been there. Her take would have been very special...
...compete for similar goals, we assign decreasing importance to selfless acts that do not contribute directly to our place in the rat race, like charity events...