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...ed investment}}<s/small>}}}}In which the {{t|FCA}}, spurred on by the good people of the [[European Commission]], indulge in the four-dimensional Russian dol ...as the term isn’t defined and clearly means different things to different people.

{{a|people|}}The hard bastards of finance. Or the [[Lunch money|meek who have inherite

...].}}}}A massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, which increasingly people are confusing for real life. This is a shame.

...Travelodge Luton Airport? Sure, make it modern, minimalist and chic. Help people forget where they are. Let them injustice they could be literally anywhere ...should not want to be transported somewhere else. Wengen is a destination. People come here because it is one of the beautiful, magnificent places in the wor

{{a|myth|}}A crack paratrooper of the law. These people are like the Flying Squad, the Green Berets, they are the French Foreign Le

{{a|people|}}“Hi Olly. The [[client]] returned the draft agreement. They’re fine w

{{a|people|}}The person whose official job description is to know the cost of everythi

...se intellectual friction, reduce social friction. Create environment where people can challenge ideas

{{a|people|{{image|CASS Garb|png|A [[CASS officer]]’s ceremonial Mithril garb.}}}}Th ...0A]] is next-least coveted position in the organisation, and is awarded to people the same way Joe Pesci became a “made guy” in ''Goodfellas''.

For most people, the ugly ''chaise-longue'' you were emotionally blackmailed into acquiring

...rporation is a social (if not to say ''[[socialist]]'') institution, where people are compensated for unwavering commitment, blood, sweat and tears.

Closely related expression, courtesy of those wonderful [[Game of Thrones]] people:

...ized corporate organisation. Also, on account of its capacity for creating people who inhabit that layer, the process of obtaining a [[MBA|Masters of Busines

{{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som

That is, people ''who should not be [[professional writer]]s''.

===For regular people=== ...uff up, so (a) if you find the site valuable, tell your friends — the more people who use it the more chance I have of making something out of it one day —

{{a|people|}}Ideally a stable, steady, dull individual who, in his most passionate mom

{{a|maxim|}}There are ''eight billion'' people in the world. if you think you are in a competition with them, ''you will l Only people who are in a competition try to be like someone else. So don’t be in. Com

{{a|people|}}A [[law firm]], like [[Simmons & Simmons]], with an aching yen to be [[Ma

...is, in the subject line, is guaranteed to make every one of the thirty six people to whom you have sent it, drop everything and read your email.

...aw should be at her side. That her loss is recoverable from a ''bunch'' of people, rather than just one, ought to be a good thing, and will allow her to proc ...as encountered it, he has mainly wished it prevailed more often. Like most people he has

Means different things to different people.

...ogical barriers to candid communication: who calls bullshit in front of 40 people? So do your bit to keep the meeting tight and effective: ...space and time. They impose a boundary within which you must concentrate. People can see you; they know if you tune out. Switch off your phone. Don’t mult

{{A|people|}}One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go do

...ax lawyer|Those who pay them fealty]] tend to be nervy, fractious sorts of people.

People in these departments: These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got

*An [[operating committee]] a vehicle by which dozen s of people gather to stare at weighty [[PowerPoint]] decks and “socialise” — mea

...ncilium'', the {{tag|Latin}} word for an assembly or convocation of clever people: ''con-'' (‘together’) + ''calare'' (‘to summon’). <br> 1. A municipal body where mediocre people make bad decisions about local affairs. <br>

...ere is what Dr. Eva Dabrowska, of Northumbria University, has to say about people who overuse the passive tense: {{quote|“''Our results show that a proportion of people with low educational attainment make errors with understanding the passive,

...der the [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]], [[sovereign]]s being the sorts of people that don’t always do things for commercial, practical, sensible or even c

...effectively destroyed or put beyond practical use will send normally sober people scuttling for exits, leaping into laundry baskets, planking, and painting t

{{a|people|}}Issuer of [[legal opinions]], supplier of [[inhouse counsel]], pliers of

...]] is a “[[jimsler]]” man, though he holds nothing against “[[gumizzler]]” people. </ref> — of enunciating “[[GMSLA]]”, the abbreviation for the {{gms

As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!” In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]

...Middle-management]] jargon which means to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most [[all-hands conference call]]s and the brazen do during [[me

...[[reasonable man]], and (in tendency to suggest the collective madness of people who should really know better) the [[hypothetical broker dealer]].

{{a|people|}}The sainted people who, because they are paid purely to worry themselves about [[Chicken Licke

* Stupid people are ''worse'' that bandits. At least ''someone'' derives a benefit from ban * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are.

{{a|people|}}“Never forget [[MF Global]]”: a [[magic incantation]] of similar effe

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...every application of force to object, however ill-advised, we wonder what people think they are establishing by claiming to be “results-driven”. ...e impact on the world, good or ill — in fairness, that’s a great number of people — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your pro

...e law, but to be able to plainly and clearly communicate that expertise to people who are not. Those people are called “[[clients]]”. Clients — even sophisticated ones — [[Q.E

...for example, an [[interest period]]. Of great [[interest]] to the sorts of people who find [[calculation period]]s ''interesting''<ref>There's a fairly weak

...obligation is to the assignee and not the assignor. This can give certain people the hives, as regards [[AML]] and so on. ...te common to see [[broker]] and service provider contracts refusing to let people assign their rights, at least, not without consent. It isn’t clear why an

...re all, in our way, [[ISDA ingénues]], but really the term is reserved for people that might not know you ''never'' say “[[eye-ess-dee-aye]]” and most ce

{{a|people|}}The financial services equivalent of one of those bossy friends who is al

...s people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” ...reat delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading

*{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a ...appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter}} — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.

...Lehmans]]''. Well, it ''was'', any rate. Who knew that an online store for people living off the grid would outlive a Wall Street behemoth?</ref>.

...xe]]'' is a [[closed-ended]] [[collective investment scheme]] popular with people who speak French. To be compared with a [[société d’investissement à c

...r that McKinsey (38,000 staff),<ref>[https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/how-to-identify-the-right-spans ...a half-hearted commitment to a maximum span of five, from the consultancy “People Puzzles”. Why? Apparently, ''To make performance appraisal easier''. This

...t simply as a game played between spells of rain over a period of weeks by people wearing old fashioned tennis gear, are prone to writing it off as utterly [

...ty, such as [[hedge fund]] managers. This goes some way to explaining what people on the left find so contemptuous about the financial services industry.

{{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] unpossessed of any ninjery and unschooled in the ways o

...hey don’t seek validation when heroism comes their way, either. Only needy people need [[awards|validation]].

...any still do, with, “assuming we all pull together for the common good and people aren’t selfish...”

{{a|work|}}{{dpn|/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə/|n|}}One of that class of people who are not [[subject matter expert]]s, don’t understand the [[territory]

{{a|people| [[Service delivery]] people have thus two principle means of progression in the organisation: either th

{{a|people|{{image|Dead man walking|jpg|The [[head of the documentation unit]] yesterd ...t]]. It is an opportunity for advancement, you see: managing three hundred people, in six centres across seven time zones, with a chance to overhaul a broken

...will live. It will make you stronger. Dwelling on it won’t, and if you do, people you respect will think less of you. And they won’t tell you.

...margin]] is not rewarding, constructive or fun. But there are thousands of people around the world engaged in doing it, and you can cry into each other’s b ...ing videos quite funny. This is largely down to Ed Parker — one of the few people in the world who manages to see the funny side of [[financial services]] re

...urse on Intercourse]].</ref>, who proved that there must be at least three people in the universe, and since they were all engaged on a [[conference call]],

...it over your shoulder and carry on regardless. This is what ''all'' sales people say, about ''everything''. You may mutter something in response, like “su If your ''risk'' people worry about the client relationship, there is more cause for nerves. You s

...active in its pursuit of legal action against its clients that it employs people on a full-time basis to do that for it — suggests either it is a poor jud

...of saying, stop ''telling'' everyone how good you are, or complaining that people don’t recognise how good you are, and ''show'' them how good you are. Als

...s an invention of the law of {{tag|tort}} which defines the general duties people have to each other ''where they don’t have a {{tag|contract}}''. ...at give rise to obligations (whether they are “[[Neighbour|neighbours]]” – people whom one should reasonably anticipate might be affected by one’s [[Fardel

{{a|people| ...erican Bar Association has a formal opinion on the subject of what to call people you can’t quite make up your mind how to feel about,<ref>Number 90-357, o

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...ontrasted, of course, with ''functional redundancy'': having resources and people available to hit the deck at times of extraordinary stress, but which can u

We all do it, all the time. It is just that some people are in denial about it.

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{{a|people|{{image|Keeling|jpg|Should have been a craft beer.}}}}Not a lawyer, even in ...he might have got away with it, and (b) might have shifted a few units to people mistaking it for some kind of microbrewed beer. The JC rather likes the sou

{{a|mgmt|}}{{quote|“The people at Head Office are always frantically busy, drawing up reports and flow cha ...ys find and get rid of — or at least ''deal with'' — an arsehole: the more people in your organisation the easier it is to do.

...ion'', but as memories fade, will asymptotically approach it again. Hence, people these days seem to find the idea of the forms as quite a good one, however

{{a|people|}}The retired court of appeal judge who held in a [https://www.casemine.com

{{a|people|{{image|Morlock|jpg|A [[subject matter expert]], yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/ˈsʌ ...dly as a [[Morlock]]—a [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorl

...[[buzzword]]s, [[legalese]]: that kind of thing. It is funny how the same people who complain about [[legalese]] on LinkedIn love to relentlessly [[leverage

It is also useful in deflating drafting pretensions of people who come bearing gifts like “[[nor anyone acting on its behalf]]”.

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{{a|people|}}Part of the continually-aggrandising titleage on modern management — ev

..., however misconceived, that might lead them to think, “oh, so hang on: do people think port and stilton is only for crusty old men? At Christmas? I didn’t ...will think: “I had better not drink port or eat stilton any more, because people will think I am a a sexless, crusty old bugger who only comes out at Christ

...e of [[Nu|classics]] — and some things you might not, such as the kinds of people [[hedge fund]] managers like to hang out with. A good set of resources over

{{a|people|}}{{quote|“I divide my officers into four groups. There are [[clever]], [

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...ns Trading Association (to its friends, “[[IETA]]”) is a loose association people who indulge in [[carbon trading]]. It also publishes the IETA Master Agree

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:people ...has been a privilege to work with some of the most incredible, passionate people in the industry! Wishing you all the best, the very best, both professional

{{a|people|}}A [[magic circle law firm]] headquartered in Silk Street London, once upo

{{a|people|}}{{Maxim|If we all removed just one brown brick of pedantry each day from

{{g}}A generic description of vaguely pejorative tone to describe those people in the business [[sales]], [[Trading desk|trading]] and [[structurer]]s who

...something of a universal virtue — we must ''all'' be proactive to ''all'' people ''all'' of the time — notwithstanding that it is just as “proactive”

They are the only people you need, or who can help, if there is a “[[twenty-three nineteen]]” al ...in early 2020 it began being used more directly by front of house security people whenever those of an Italian disposition — construed liberally so as to i

...Egg.gif|450px|center|An outsourcing strategy yesterday]]}}Ancient guild of people with a [[management consultant|natural talent for telling grandmothers how

{{a|people|}}Once upon a time the smuggest of the [[magic circle law firm]]s, but sinc

...her five minutes to allow people to join”.}}}}The notion that gathering 17 people around the world to stop what they’re doing and listen to someone run thr ...g words in the English language, there are THIRTY NINE, all fairly senior, people invited to this call. In other words, a full working week of your organisat

...ry to make a dromedary out of ''papier-mâché'' and an old curtain, ask two people you found in a job centre in Bratislava to stand in it so they can’t see

{{a|people|[[File:Rubbish.jpg|450px|thumb|center|The [[counsel]] hard at work yesterda

.... [[Lynyrd Skynrd]], of course, grew famous, and rich, writing songs about people who annoyed them. ''Sweet Home Alabama'' is about the highly annoying — t