Word: compounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the old system, a fund's unspent earnings were plowed back into the general investment fund, so the fund did not grow as it would have with compound interest. A $1 gift given 200 years ago therefore earned no more interest than a $1 gift given recently...
...arrows and even to make sketches: houses, boats, things like that. Some of his creations he gave away to family and friends (there are five known specimens), but at least one item ended up in the wastebasket. That, apparently, is where someone found a sketch of the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass. Now that picture belongs to an Alexandria, Va., antique dealer named Holly Langhorne, who acquired it in exchange for some objets d'art. Next year, on the tenth anniversary of J.F.K.'s death, Ms. Langhorne says she will reproduce the drawing in an expensive limited...
...historical-sociological survey that a linguistics text. More work is needed in the field. Certainly a standard text on Black English for prospective teachers should be a priority. Currently, black children are mercilessly suffering at the hands of teachers with whom they cannot communicate, and the problems simply compound as the children grow older. They eventually reach the point where the black community is unable to communicate with the white institutions with which it must dead...
...binges have begun to overlap. This is the day that his wife (Holland Taylor) tells him that she is leaving him permanently for another man. More homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness, Butley's book on T.S. Eliot is getting absolutely nowhere. Butley is the human equivalent of a rotting apple in a rotting barrel...
...time of his murder Trotsky was a grand old man of the revolution who lived inside his closely guarded compound dictating memos and manifestoes and reading newspapers and magazines for news of the world outside. (In one scene of the movie he good-naturedly marks up a copy of TIME with a red pencil.) Not only is the fire virtually gone from Burton's Trotsky, it is impossible to see how it could ever have been kindled...