Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sloppily ate a very squishy orange last week in my Canaday dorm room, I discovered that I needed a useless piece of something to protect my futon from the juice and sticky orange peels. I opened my door and luckily found an untouched copy of the Harvard Independent in the basket...
Maryland may be the first state to legislate against such actions, deeming them a form of censorship. For constitutional reasons, Maryland would be right to protect the marketplace of ideas with a slightly modified version of the bill it is currently debating...
...sheer volume of money that rides on them. These side bets pull with them a real world of securities worth 30 times their value. Experts worried about the perils of such instruments have no trouble coming up with bleak scenarios. For instance, a utility company, trying to protect itself from an expected rise in oil prices, borrows lots of money to buy a derivative contract that will enable the firm to purchase oil in three months at current prices. But the price of oil goes down unexpectedly, and the utility is stuck with a commitment...
...than it's ever been," says Laleen Doerrer, the co-founder of a one-year-old Chicago derivatives firm. "It seems like every day someone has created a new contract and a new swap option. We are almost equally divided between two groups of customers -- one that wants to protect everything it has and the other that wants to make a 200% killing overnight...
...veteran insider, Zedillo vows to protect the Salinas legacy...