Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying a balancing act. Firms like Barr Rosenberg and Euclid Advisers have launched market-neutral funds, which bet equal amounts of a portfolio on stocks to rise and fall. The funds are touted as a low-risk investment, but the high fees and taxes--and relatively low returns--extract a high price for security...
Indeed, some analysts see the nuclear tests as a gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...task extends beyond exploring the scriptures. Hailed as one of the seven best preachers in America, Gomes satiates the religious appetite with sermons that his audience savors, replete with advice on how to join the practical to the spiritual--from how to focus for an exam to how to extract principles out of an amoral world...
...authorities wrestle with how best to remove and treat the poisons before they reach the danger level, some residents are promoting a new twist on their old livelihood: mining the Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow...
These days it seems to be McCurry who could use the help. In the press conference that elicited the revealing aside, McCurry had been trying to extract himself from a misleading statement he had made over the weekend based on information provided to him by the White House counsel's office. Specifically, McCurry had flatly denied that anyone connected with the White House had hired or authorized private investigators to probe the background of prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A day later, on Monday, longtime Democratic operative Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton...