![]() PERSONAL FINANCE is a term I recognize, but it's very general in my mind. (wikipedia)Ĭan't think of a theme type that's less For Me. Silver made headlines in 2014 for forcing Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after Sterling made racist remarks, later banning him for life from the game. When Stern retired in 2014, Silver was named the new commissioner.Īs commissioner, the league has continued to grow economically and globally, especially in China. He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the league, becoming chief operating officer and deputy commissioner under his predecessor and mentor David Stern in 2006. JOHNNY CASH (11D: Singer profiled in the biopic "Walk the Line")Īdam Silver (born April 25, 1962) is an American lawyer and sports executive who is the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).it's all a bit nebulous to me oh wait, I think maybe I just got it-those "sorts of investment" are all the last names of *people*? So they're. Stealth tax is a tax you are not aware of paying, as you pay it on a purchase rather than directly to the government.THEME: PERSONAL FINANCE (20A: Sort of investment suggested by the ends of 3-, 11- and 29-Down) - the ends of those answers = BONDS, SILVER, and CASH. Dead cat bounce is a situation in which the price of shares rises a small amount after a large fall, sometimes before falling further. So a cash cow is an investment that, once the initial cost has been paid, continues to produce income for years to come. Cash cow is a metaphor for a dairy cow that produces milk over the course of its life and requires little maintenance. The world of finance has introduced many words and phrases. Nowadays we know that cyber is a prefix meaning ‘relating to electronic communication’ – we’ve come a long way! Because nobody has any idea what it means, it can be grafted onto any old word to make it seem new, cool - and therefore strange, spooky.” In 1996, New York magazine wrote: “Cyber is such a perfect prefix. Interestingly this is the same root as the word ‘governor’. The prefix cyber comes from cybernetics (the scientific study of machines and humans) which was invented in the 1940s from the Greek word kubernetes meaning ‘helmsman of a ship’ or steerer (ruler). ![]() Some words I only recently came across are keypal (online version of a penpal) and cybersickness (sickness caused by overuse of computers). Familiar words such as google, mouse, browser, spam, upload, tweet or broadband and expressions such as log on, boot up or text message would have sounded like a foreign language 20 years ago. New words relating to computers and the Internet outnumber all others. Newspapers are quick to react to any new development, especially in science and technology. If it is useful and used sufficiently, it will eventually appear in a dictionary. How does a word become popularised in our language? It is often introduced by a newspaper journalist and picked up by the general public. Many basic words came from Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian and English still derives much of its vocabulary from Latin and Greek, but we have also borrowed (or stolen – we haven’t given them back!) words from nearly all of the languages in Europe. Most of the words we use in the English language today are of foreign origin. The English language is like a high-speed moving train, with new words jumping on and old words dropping off constantly. ![]()
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