Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins
Edwin Arend Perkins, FRS FRSCis a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize...
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We got off to a fast start and we wanted that on a cold night. We let them come back into the game, but then we toughened up in the second half. We didn't worry too much about (the fumbles). That's gonna happen on a night like this.
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Each airline that's involved sets the prices and some of these differences can be huge.
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Brian's progressed a lot from last year. He's come a long way and he's running the ball now.
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The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.
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You can do something in about every price range. You can buy a $10,000 cruise all the way down to a $10 gadget in a travel store.
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The 3 percent charge has been coming into effect over the past year, but a lot of smaller banks and credit unions only charge the 1 percent, and American Express is still at 2 percent.
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CDW is priced at gouge levels -- three, four or five times what it ought to be, based on real risk. Most people are better off using some better system to cover themselves.
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People will spend two hours looking around London or Paris to save $2 on exchange costs. That's really crazy.
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Since labor action falls into the same category as 'Act of God' and 'Act of War,' the carriers have no legal obligation to do anything for the consumer,
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