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

...lel universe]], our mortal equivalents — ''good'' people; ''kind'' people; people who otherwise resemble ''you and me'', readers — who live, love and aspir

...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.

'''The [[JC]]’s [[ninth law of worker entropy]]''': As the number of people involved in negotiating a {{tag|contract}} goes ''up'', its brevity, compre

...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.

...it Support}} on any {{vmcsaprov|Valuation Date}}, basically ... which most people with a reading age above seven would deduce from the word “{{vmcsaprov|tr

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

...bit more blasé about it, in that is seems not to bother with the fix most people apply to the ISDA.

*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

..., and that would confuse people even beyond ISDA’s tolerance for confusing people.<ref>Seeing as the {{ietama}} borrows a bit of technology from the {{1992ma

{{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]].

In the year of our Lord 2016, it is gratifying to see that the good people of {{tag|ISDA}} and their friends, relations, cherubim and seraphin, gog an

{{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

There’s not a lot of [[case law]] on it. Some say 90%. Some say 75%. Some people — your correspondent included — say “shoot me”.

Requiring less expensive, less experienced people to handle these over-engineered processes will create not just additional w ...one, with non-linear interconnections and risk, which require experienced people to exercise expert judgments in real time.

...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