Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...office denied there was any deal in the works when he called there. He says, however, that Gleneagles Managing Director Peter Lederer told him that the two parties had nearly finalized negotiations on a £5 million project that would allow Scottish and European business executives to take short seminars and courses organized...
What perhaps astonished people most about last week's deal was that AOL could be buying Time Warner. But that is the nature of the Internet economy, making the impossible (or even the implausible) possible. The speed of the Net has served to condense into Case's short business life--he founded AOL 15 years ago--several lifetimes' worth of hardscrabble learning. AOL has had plenty of near death experiences--the launch of Microsoft's online service in 1995, the day AOL's entire service blipped off-line in 1996, the easily won reputation as America On Hold after...
Although successive governments have shared this goal throughout the '90s, the problem in part lies in the fact that India is a democracy. China is able to liberalize its economy from the top down and its population simply has to accept the consequences, which in the short term inevitably involve hardship...
...more diligent students attempting to study in the library, they said the interruption was a short and well deserved study break...
...near future. "The bad guys are more likely to use a Piper Cub to deliver a weapon of mass destruction than a long-range missile, which always has a return address," says Thompson. "If they did use a missile they?re more likely to fire it at short range from a cargo ship so nearby that this system couldn?t stop it. So we?re spending most of the money countering the least likely 10 percent of potential threats to this country...