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Cambridge uses the Hare proportional representation system, a method touted by John Stuart Mill as a means of enlarging "the marketplace of ideas" by ensuring minority representation...
...Parameswaran, 57, president of First Asian Securities, a tiny New York City brokerage, earned a $13,750 profit last Monday using the same method as Cafazza: put options. Parameswaran made such a gamble on 5,000 shares of National Semiconductor, a Santa Clara, Calif., electronics company, which zoomed in value from 25 cents to $3 a share as the stock price of the firm tumbled 2 1/4 points on Monday, closing at 15. "I could have waited and got $4.25 per share for the options," Parameswaran said, "but I was not greedy...
...edging downward (from 13.9% in 1978 to 12.4% last year). One type of means test would cut off benefits for recipients above a certain income level. "There's a big distinction between entitlements for poor people and entitlements for everybody," says Ruben Mettler, chairman of TRW. Another suggested method to get entitlement costs under control would be to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment from 100% of the consumer price index...
Genentech, Inc. will use a Columbia-patented method developed by Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology Richard Axel and colleagues to develop a drug that could help sufferers of heart attacks, The Spectator reported...
...turns out, Weeds meanders as much as the motley group, and Hancock intersperses comedy with melodrama in such a casual manner that we are left looking for the method in his madness...