The Future Is Now
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Futures on economic indices will aid markets and improve their efficiency. The number of futures contracts traded in 1984 has increased significantly. With futures easy and inexpensive protection is available against costly declines. Futures trading has some critics who believe it diverts capital from productive purposes to gambling.
Publication Name: Barron's
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 1077-8039
Year: 1984
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Is it art, or just dead meat?
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UK artist Hirst has been nominated for the sought-after Tate Gallery's Turner Prize, but many people do not like his art with its animals in formaldehyde or rotting in glass boxes. His work is being bought by private and public collectors. One work is maggots and cow's head in a glass box.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1995
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A stitch in time
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Holmes County, OH, is home to a sizable Amish population and is known for having perhaps the finest selection of quilts in the US. A trip through the area in which its quiltmaking tradition and other aspects of Amish culture are experienced is described.
Publication Name: Travel-Holiday
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0199-025X
Year: 1996
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