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For, as we all know, [[Chicken-licken|the sky fell in]] on {{t|Lehman}}’s head because it tried to standardize its business and create robust operational flows that didn’t involve [[credit]] sitting on [[cross default]] [[escalation]]s. Had they only been allowed to vacillate nervously for weeks upon end about whether to waive {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} for [[Hedge fund]] clients, [[Lehman]] might still be with us today.
For, as we all know, [[Chicken-licken|the sky fell in]] on {{t|Lehman}}’s head because it tried to standardize its business and create robust operational flows that didn’t involve [[credit]] sitting on [[cross default]] [[escalation]]s. Had they only been allowed to vacillate nervously for weeks upon end about whether to waive {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} for [[Hedge fund]] clients, [[Lehman]] might still be with us today.


Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|opposing counsel]] — sometimes, even your own — will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that any record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms, [[redundancies]], extract [[No violation - Representation|unfalsifable representations]]— you know the kind of dismal [[verbiage]] — and under no circumstances can one leave anything unsaid and at the mercy of the common sense, capacity for formal logic, or ability to parse a sentence phrased in idiomatic English of those learned practitioners who occupy the [[Queen’s Bench Division]].  
Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|opposing counsel]] — sometimes, even your own — will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that any record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms, [[redundancies]] and [[No violation - Representation|unfalsifable representations]] — you know the kind of dismal [[verbiage]] — and under no circumstances can one leave anything unsaid and at the mercy of the common sense, capacity for formal logic, or ability to parse a sentence phrased in idiomatic English of those learned practitioners who occupy the [[Queen’s Bench Division]].  


And yes, you ''do'' have to say this [[confidentiality agreement]] may be executed in [[counterpart]]s, lest the sky should fall in on our heads if you do not.
And yes, you ''do'' have to say this [[confidentiality agreement]] may be executed in [[counterpart]]s, lest the sky should fall in on our heads if you do not.