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The other is the “well, look who got a thesaurus for Christmas” approach whereby writing the letter you im

...ker]]s do, to hike up [[initial margin]] at your discretion.<ref>I know, I know, there may be a [[margin lockup]]. That’s really the best place for the [ ...NAV triggers it has buried in its contract portfolio, each [[hedge fund]] who has granted one will and, if<ref>''When''.</ref> it suffers a significant d

{{Image|Tippex on screen|jpg|Getting rid of those carriage returns one stroke at a time}} ...' ones, and not particularly good lawyers, as a class, tend to be the ones who are fundamentally ignorant of how powerful Microsoft Word is.

...arranger therefore a commodity pool operator? Applies to initial sales an those you plan from the outset. If there is no cash-settled derivative (ie physic ...[accredited investor]]s” or “[[qualified institutional buyers]]”</ref> and who do not make public offerings of their securities.

...use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no valu Cue long-winded diatribes, from either side, about those who know the ''price'' of everything, the ''value'' of nothing, and so forth.

...us human imps occupying unobserved crevices in the great steampunk machine who, by human frailty, ruins the best-laid plans of the machines. Bad apples ne ...g, peaceable, but ignorant, citizens as they go about their quotidian day, those bad old apples, wise to the world, have long since untied their bonds and m

===Representations you can never know are false until it is too late=== ...ose, so he might. But isn’t the fellow who does a little bit like the chap who blasphemes at his own stoning? If you are already in fundamental breach of

...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 the

...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 classes

There are those who will tell you that a [[guarantor]] and a [[surety]] are different things, t

...onsumer contracts, or [[Little old ladies|contracts with little old ladies who make bad law]].

...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 req

...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, bri

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-sum

“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 rol

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 c

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 t

Then the parties settled — but like the winger who arrives late to a punch-up between two front rows, Gloster J piled in anywa

# (''n.'') A prime minister who did likewise.

...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 cri