Word: backwardness
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...whose faith has instilled meaning and order into their once tumultuous lives. Husic says she has learned to ignore the jeers that her head scarf attracts in Catholic neighborhoods. And Begic says her next movie, titled Bait, tackles growing prejudice, including against women in hijab. "They think we are backward," says Begic bitterly. "It is racist." For her war-weary generation, another era of murderous discord is an unbearable prospect...
...that a general proposition? Not so clear.”In some situations, senior management may have failed to understand the models or may have ignored their implications—such as when they advise reducing profit to control risk, even when other companies are pressing forward.While backward-looking VaR models relied entirely on data from past years, forward-looking VaR models were able to pick up on the increased volatility of the market before securities prices took a nosedive, says Aaron C. Brown ’78, a risk manager at the quant hedge fund AQR Capital Management...
...trying to find room in his schedule to get to Boston for an HIV test. At that time, Harvard did not offer anonymous HIV testing, so students looking for anonymity while staying in control of their health were sent packing. It’s rare that health care goes backward, but University Health Services’s recent decision to end anonymous testing (instituted in 1996) is one of those times. Effective August 1, only confidential testing will be provided by UHS, meaning that test results will show up on students’ permanent medical records. This change in policy...
Forget sticks, and stick with carrots instead. So says Brent Schulkin, founder of a fledgling movement of activist consumers employing a kind of reverse boycott that he calls a Carrotmob. The concept is simple: instead of steering clear of environmentally backward stores, why not reward businesses with mass purchases if they promise to use some of the money to get greener...
Actually, Dylan announced the onset of his seniority in 1997 with the excellent Time Out of Mind, a dark and wistful album that looked backward more than forward, his voice a nasal husk of itself, accessible only to his most persistent fans. There was a high-tech hipness to Time Out of Mind--the damp, echoey sound provided by producer Daniel Lanois--that doesn't exist on the new album. Everything about Together Through Life is simple: the lyrics (a collaboration with the old Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter), the instrumentation and the sound, which Dylan admits, in an interview...