Word: murray
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...Partly because the bookies usually profit by adjusting their spreads and by constantly trading in the underlying markets to hedge clients' bets. More often than not, they come out ahead. "Last year our clients made more than they lost, yet we had a record year as well," says Michael Murray, associate director at IG Index, a London-based firm that pioneered financial spread betting 26 years ago and remains the market leader. IG Index set up shop as a financial spread-betting bookmaker, initially offering spreads on gold futures, hence its name...
It’s not too surprising, then, that Jamal must prove himself, on his own terms, in this hostile environment. F. Murray Abraham’s Professor Crawford provides Jamal with a suitably flat and pompous foil. Suspicious that Jamal’s talent for writing is illegitimate—“He’s a basketball player. From the Bronx”—Crawford endeavors to have him expelled. As Crawford’s role becomes prominent late in the film, Abraham dutifully slogs through a series of embarrassing scenes, trying to maintain some...
...third-ranked Wolverines, riding a five-game unbeaten streak heading into the weekend, buried the Saints Friday night en route to a 5-1 victory with a trio of third-period goals. John Shouneyia scored on a breakaway at the 1:59 mark to begin the onslaught and Craig Murray finished it off for the Wolverines with an unassisted goal following a Saints turnover deep in the defensive zone...
...campus cop has just left. Professor of English Murray Sperber sits in his office at Indiana University, mulling the advice on how to protect himself from hotheads. Sperber, 60, figures he had better take two self-defense courses recommended by the cop, including "Verbal Judo," which is designed to help de-escalate potential violence. When he returns to teaching in January, after sitting out a semester to avoid having his teeth knocked out, his name will not appear on course listings. For his own protection, he'll be Professor Incognito...
...only after Knight's firing did he consider a return. "I felt silenced, and I missed teaching," he says. After 29 years at I.U., he'll teach two "stealth courses," as he calls them. Students won't know in advance that their teacher is the anti-Knight. "Murray's a good guy and a great teacher," says student Heather Dinich, 21, who welcomes his return...