Word: rising
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...market rise of the last two weeks has been described as a "sucker" or a bear market rally. One means about the same as the other. The premise is that the long term trend of the indexes is down. Once in awhile, investors will stir from their depressions to watch the dead cat bounce. In this case, the Dow is up 10% since March...
...Quad sober, there’s one thing every incoming sophomore should be acquainted with: their house’s party suite. FM has compiled a list of the best and the brightest in each house for your convenience. While any of Mather’s low-rise suites could host a good party, none of them stand out from the pack. Leverett is also excluded from this list because Harvard’s biggest house is all about quantity, not quality.Quincy: The Balcony SuiteTake the elevator in New Quincy to the third floor, where you’ll find...
...position to serve as role models for a new batch of woman leaders.MARY K.B. COXCox said she initially felt that the IOP was “very much an old boys’ club,” and despite a recent rise in female participation at the IOP, she felt that her gender ultimately served as both an asset and a liability in her bid for SAC President.Cox entered the IOP as a freshman and was initially put off by the lack of diversity in its forums. “There was basically a feeling when you came...
...Harvard community, and especially those involved in the campus media where Mr. Douthat began his journalistic career, welcomes this news in particular. Mr. Douthat’s speedy rise through the ranks of opinion journalism does our newspaper—as well as the Salient—proud. Harvard for a long time has been privileged as a fertile ground for launching careers of all sorts, especially in journalism. Mr. Douthat, author of Privilege, the celebrated autobiographical account of his undergraduate years, offers further encouragement to the campus’s aspiring writers and thinkers...
...While there have not been any proposals to sell assets held by the U.S. government, it may come to that if tax receipts are undermined by the recession and spending continues to rise in order to bail out financial institutions and add jobs to the economy...