Word: three-year
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...address potential problems that may arise from the new policy, such as the disruption of department curricula, Kirby will mandate that each department submit “a three-year curricular plan that incorporates anticipated senior faculty leaves...
...three-year plans will allow administrators to ensure that all the basic courses are covered before the leaves are approved, Gross wrote in an e-mail...
...SIGNED. HIDEKI MATSUI, 28, Japanese baseball superstar who recently left the Yomiuri Giants for the American major leagues; a three-year, $21 million contract with the New York Yankees; in New York City. Nicknamed "Godzilla," Matsui is the first Japanese power hitter to sign with a major league team...
...make of it three separate but seamless movies, each one minutely, imaginatively faithful to Tolkien. That ambition cost him the backing of Miramax Films and other potential sponsors, loath to give $310 million to a New Zealand director with a few oddball critical successes but no mainstream hits. Jackson's confidence has been validated by the box-office take ($860 million worldwide for Fellowship) and the hatching of a blockbuster franchise. So of course he would believe that the audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets, over a two- or three-year span. And he's right. Taken...
...critic of the practice, calls "survivorship bias": lousy funds are killed so that a fund company's average rate of return rises. Survivorship bias may not have been the goal but was certainly the result in July when Columbia Management Group's Galaxy II Utility fund, with a three-year return of 3.7%, was merged into the Liberty Utilities fund, with a three-year return of 8.4%. (FleetBoston Financial, Columbia's parent, had earlier acquired LibertyFunds...