What hope have we got, he thought, although he had to agree that on paper the Argentine selection looked unbeatable.

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In a 1952 paper and 1959 book, Portfolio Selection, future Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz expounded MPT for the investment world.

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In early 2011, Threeprom opened barfry, a high-end French fries bar that serves paprika and rock salt fries in paper cones, along with an impressive selection of homemade sauces and additional toppings such as pickles, fried onions, jalapenos and pork rinds.

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One key to the selection: A voter-verified paper trail installed on the machines.

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Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82, 000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-Reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-Bookstore.

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It gave rise to a new lexicon: swinging chad, hanging chad, tri-chad, pregnant chad and dimpled chad--a "chad" being the bit of paper that did not fully detach when the voter punched a selection.

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