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...hild-like faeries — the ''[[Synthæse]]'', or “[[Children of the Woods]]” — who eschewed all earthly rancour, regarded physical settlement of disputes as s ...ng but [[Geek paradox|socially awkward and physically pathetic]] specimens who relied for their continued survival on their powers of wit, deception, and

...h the ISDA Emissions Annex as the framework trading agreement of types for those wanting to punt around on carbon.

Who would not leap at that? ...in, or with some understanding of, the documentation unit? ''These people know something you don’t. Do not fall for their lionisation of your people man

{{a|design|}}Those in positions of authority in a [[power structure]] have great influence ove ...rs and competing academics be any more inclined to publish these failures. Who wants to read about an experiment that dusn’t work?

..., in all your happy conversations until today, there has been no mention — who is all set to pay you, in full, ''later in the day''. ...ility. So you just ''won’t know if he’s shitting you''. Well, you ''will'' know, but there that nagging ''fear'' will just crawl ticklishly around the back

...institutional players, saucily referred to by one and all as “[[QIB]]s” — who are the US equivalent of [[Professional client|professional clients]] or [[

...opies of her book in a Sydney bookshop when approached by a woman shopper who handed her the book and said, “Emma Chisit.”

“Show me a Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science who is not prepared to jump off the Eiger in a wingsuit, and I’ll show you a

...}}, a [[trust]] has no [[legal personality]] distinct from the [[trustee]] who constitutes it; in America and other far-flung places the trust itself (as

Named after Alan Turing, the computing pioneer and Bletchley Park codebreaker who thought them, and the related [[Turing test]], up.

...o have demonstrably taken leave of their senses and their representatives, who are happy enough to indulge their delusions at a suitable hourly rate. It ...oted in the ''past'', that place that place of consoling clarity for those who navigate by rear-view mirror and have not the stomach for the unknown.

...r, largely<ref>Like dinosaurs, there are rare creatures on remote outposts who still use the old versions.</ref> extinct versions of contemporary master a

...ncial word of extractorship and the ultimate client, a kindly old granddad who cares only for feeding the ducks with his granddaughter and would be horrif

...e ''else'' by surprise. It is a fruitless task trying to get the bottom of who is most justifiably surprised but, for the record, it’s us.

...terner stuff, especially as they’ll generally have as many people arriving who can spill such wondrous secrets as they’ll lose in any given period. (Inv ...n of gardening leave come up at the AGM? — but by fellow employees, all of who fancy a similar deal as and when ''they'' switch jobs. Gardening leave is j

{{a|people|}}One who is [[long]] an exalted position, but [[short]] a grisly [[option]], should

...htened sophisticates in the fashionable salons of Manhattan and Menlo Park who are the JC’s regular readers, will enjoy the carefree ''Europeanness'' of

...is rumoured to have been long cultivating an undead army of phantom ISDAs who lie upon the dead earth as spores, and the prophecies of the [[Good Man]] m

...few are more distinctive than the quality of communications between those who wind up being implicated in them. ...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

...of iniquity are shrugged off with the two-way optionality that HR managers know they are long. ...Markets that most effectively allocate capital do best. In any case, those who are good at it stand to make a lot of money. This will not change. Effectiv