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2. Cold War - Wikipedia

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   The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947 and lasted to 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported opposing ...

3. Mutual fund - Wikipedia

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   Mutual fund. A mutual fund is an investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV in Europe ('investment company with variable capital'), and the open-ended investment company (OEIC) in the UK.

4. Gregory C. Carr - Wikipedia

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   Gregory C. Carr (born 1959) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His main philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, which has been ravaged by Mozambican Civil War and environmental destruction. He has pledged more than $100 million over 35 years to restore and protect the park's biodiversity ...

5. Double First-Class Construction - Wikipedia

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   The phase-specific objectives include that "an increasing number of Chinese universities and their disciplines join the ranks of world-class institutions, and a number of universities enter the forefront of global excellence, with a group of disciplines reaching the forefront of world-class standings by 2030," and "developing the Double First ...

6. New International Economic Order - Wikipedia

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   The New International Economic Order ( NIEO) is a set of proposals advocated by developing countries to end economic colonialism and dependency through a new interdependent economy. [1] [2] The main NIEO document recognized that the current international economic order "was established at a time when most of the developing countries did not ...

7. Robert C. Merton - Wikipedia

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   Robert C. Merton. Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model.