As Wall Street plummets, shrinks, crashes, retreats, and melts down into a bear market, analysts and reporters seem uncertain as to which of these metaphors best captures what’s going on. The answer ...

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It's one of the basic rules of good writing: Don't mix your metaphors. As reported by the New Republic's Jonathan Chait, Eric Alterman of the Daily Beast provides an illustration of why the rule is so ...

There’s a method to my partial differential equations. Yang Yang, associate professor of mathematical sciences, uses high-order numerical techniques to solve mathematical models with unbounded ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

[3] The store is open and the storekeeper allows credit, but the ledger is open and the hand writes, and [4] Whoever wishes to borrow may come and borrow; but the collectors go around regularly every ...