futures by cleverly scamming the market.
And women should fight for their reproductive futures by saying: "My fertility is worth something.
But I was not willing to have an indelible effect on daughters' futures by tethering them to a dependent sibling.
Commodity traders, meanwhile, beat down the price of beef futures by 1.5 cents a pound, the daily limit.
Even before the downturn, states jeopardized their futures by accumulating trillions in debt that they swept into some far-off future.
So what do we do when told it's possible to change our futures by exercising an even small amount of effort in the present?
Some people believe that runners harm their futures by racing too much in college, where they face demanding cross-country, indoor and outdoor seasons.
WASHINGTON — Regulators examining the causes of the brief stock market free fall last Thursday are looking closely at heavy selling in the market for stock-index futures by a single trader, beginning 10 minutes before stock prices began to plummet.
Some, like Julie Fleeting, Scotland's career-leading female scorer, have said they will not risk their futures by competing on Team GB. "I am Scottish through and through," she told reporters in June.
A very large sale of stock index futures by a Waddell & Reed world allocation fund was blamed by federal regulators late last month for initiating the flash crash — the sharp, brief plunge in the stock market on May 6.
Since the sale of futures by portfolio insurers was based on a computer program that assumed continuous markets, it had no way to stop selling when prices became ridiculously low.
