Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While the record number seems to be a logical explanation for the wide discrepancies between polling agencies, it still does not explain the volatility of individual polling firms over short periods of time...
...think the polls do reflect what's going on; we design the polls to do this," he says. "There is a lot of short-term volatility in response to recent events, like debates and speeches...
More than 1,000 students signed a petition calling for the addition of two students--one undergraduate and one graduate--to the selection committee and the accessibility of the short-list of presidential candidates and search committee members to interested student groups. Versions of the petition were approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC), Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats. The petition was authored by the Committee on University Practices (COUP), a watchdog group that was an agitator throughout the search process...
...when the search committee presented its short list of candidates to the bi-monthly meeting of the overseers on February 10, the list had eight candidates. In addition to Leder, Feldstein and Rudenstine, they were University of Chicago President Gerhard Casper, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles, Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Michael B. McElroy, Columbia University Professor of Psychology Donald Hood and Stephen G. Breyer, Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit...
...nothing short of glorious. And infinitely more gratifying than a Yankees three-peat...