It was kind of astonishing: as environmentalism, philanthropy, saving and debt, trust funds, fame, slave morality and real estate all reared their heads in the fairly literate comments section, it became clear that the house of Brangelina — and Mr. Levin's disingenuous take on it — was as good a subject as any to ignite a great American debate.
Though it may record a famine of nutrition, funds and fame, my thirst always seems to have found a way to be quenched.
I am not saying there aren't scientists who are careerists, or who even possibly do it "for the love of beautiful women", but the data doesn't seem to support the theory that the majority of scientists are more interested in funding and fame than "truth".
We're all on this hedonistic treadmill pursuing funding, pursuing fame, pursuing h-index and th-index andscience as a public good is being losthe .
For a hedge fund manager whose fame first came on writing invective-filled letters, Daniel S. Loeb's latest missive was a model of politeness.
In the 1990s and the early part of the 2000s, Mr. Miller was the Joe DiMaggio of mutual fund investors, achieving fame for beating the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index for 15 consecutive years, from 1991 to 2005.
The Olympics will bring fame, funding and the chance to produce a team successful enough to seduce newcomers.
The ETF's costs would eat up just 12%.PIMCO's move is striking not just because of the fund's size and fame but also because the ETF is actively managed.
Most recently, Tom's, the company that donates a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair it sells, agreed to sell half of itself to private-equity firm Bain Capital (of Mitt Romney fame) to fund an expansion of its operations in the US and overseas.
