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- ...ho “took too many philosophy classes” or “read too much Wittgenstein”, and who may therefore be under the impression that language problems are important, ...d say uninformed) form of essentialism: He is a thorough-going reductivist who says things like “one may have a million ways to explain things, but the6 KB (1,059 words) - 09:14, 26 June 2024
- ...ch a [[broker]] submits trade ideas to its client investment fund managers who then use them to adjust their positions in equities or other asset classes2 KB (323 words) - 13:30, 14 August 2024
- There are those who will tell you that a [[guarantor]] and a [[surety]] are different things, t2 KB (383 words) - 13:11, 18 September 2023
- ...onsumer contracts, or [[Little old ladies|contracts with little old ladies who make bad law]].2 KB (296 words) - 11:30, 29 June 2023
- Cash exit rights can only be exercised by [[shareholders]] who did not concur in the approval of the resolution. After the2 KB (348 words) - 11:48, 13 August 2024
- ...eavers — or at least ''wouldn’t'', if you could hang on to those few staff who got anything done. But these are, by self-selecting definition, your [[late ...[[reduction in force]], fully honoured in the breach though it is, is that those put “[[At risk of redundancy|at risk]]” are functionally surplus to req8 KB (1,289 words) - 17:17, 4 November 2023
- ...that would explain a lot. In any case it exudes weird influence on things who approach it too closely: balls, and players — particularly men. ...in more than one sense is it a “gravity well”. The player, usually male, who leaps like a salmon at his opponent’s feeble last-ditch backhand lob, bri5 KB (832 words) - 12:24, 30 May 2024
- Indeed, MacAskill, a thirty-something ethics lecturer who has divided his adult life between Oxford and Cambridge universities, is ba ...is assured. What it is, and who will enjoy it, is literally impossible to know. This [[uncertainty]] is a profoundly important engine of our non-zero-sum13 KB (2,099 words) - 06:20, 30 April 2024
- “Ensemble averages” payoffs across a collection of people who roll the same dice once, are very different from the payoffs of the same pe ...s are only meaningful for independent events in a bounded system where you know all possible outcomes, and the events do not influence each other. Like rol2 KB (327 words) - 12:19, 1 May 2023
- This tension, between the overriding life goals of an [[agent]] and those of {{sex|her}} [[principal]] is the crux of the agency problem. They do ali ...e'' defence of its own interests to its “friends” who ''are'' animate, but who have interests of their own. It can seek to nullify any ''one'' agent’s c12 KB (1,922 words) - 11:00, 6 May 2024
- The President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division ( who had the assistance of an assessor) giving judgment. This action was origina ...a little before high water on the date in question, when Mr Rumpelheimer, who had an important business appointment in the City, began his voyage along t11 KB (1,908 words) - 15:32, 9 April 2024
- Then the parties settled — but like the winger who arrives late to a punch-up between two front rows, Gloster J piled in anywa2 KB (356 words) - 16:22, 23 May 2023
- # (''n.'') A prime minister who did likewise.2 KB (370 words) - 10:57, 30 September 2023
- ...BBC. Just ask Amy Prime, a litigation trainee from Womble Bond Dickinson, who sent this to her clients at the Post Office: ...some criticism from Freeths. If you disagree with this approach, do let me know. Otherwise, we’ll adopt this approach until such time as we sense the cri2 KB (366 words) - 11:43, 18 April 2024
- ...annot hide, whom you are obliged to greet wanly in reception each day, and who can wantonly ruin entire days, weeks and years of your professional existen2 KB (351 words) - 20:02, 11 September 2023
- ...althy sceptical disposition to take into the world. [[Paula Vennells|Those who find uncommon success that defies outward explanation]] would do well to be2 KB (337 words) - 09:41, 4 June 2024
- ...y [[derivatives]] [[salesmen]] from the ancient, doomed, city of Salomoné, who it is said, wiped them out in the late 1980s in one big bang, but not befor ...netheless tangible, benefit — known in Lanchmani as “''rehnt''” — to those who take care of them.7 KB (1,060 words) - 15:34, 14 January 2024
- One who spends {{sex|his}}<ref>It ''used'' to be largely men, but is less so as tim2 KB (351 words) - 13:51, 21 March 2024
- ...e was a note typed on the family computer. It said, “You were the only one who deserved to live.”2 KB (380 words) - 08:27, 16 August 2024
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