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...}From the {{isia}} file, [[US person]] means different things to different people. Even different kinds of [[US Attorney]]. Even the ''same'' [[U.S. Attorney

...to elbow his way into what was meant to be a private meeting of important people, will now not stop talking}} On a freezing night December 1808, about 1,500 people attended an ''akademie'' concert at the ''Theater an der Wien'' in suburban

.... This, we sense is not so much because blockchain is ''clever'', but that people who buy non-fungible tokens are ''stupid'', or at any rate (as we shall see

...manesque, burlesque system of law from a place thronging with dentists and people wearing pork pie hats. You can try arguing “How on earth should I know? I

...wan]]s will be angrily flapping about. Then, your [[paradigm]] has failed. People around you are losing their heads and blaming it on you and your stupid [[t

...chnology]] to ''indulge'' ourselves.<ref>There is a serious point here for people who argue that technology implementations should be driven as far as possib

...s — eighty percent of the blighters! — generate just twenty percent. These people are hardly worth the bother. We would be much better served just foregoing

..., as one might administer cod liver oil to an unwilling child, by the good people of [[human resources]]. They alone hold any affection for it — why wouldn

...“What?” he hissed. “Like, seriously, what the fuck? Do you know who these people are?”

...rn boundary. Originally conceived by Parliamentary Commission to “give the people an ennobling enjoyment”, the Gallery houses paintings which, on any accou ...ned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? The cotht of living crithith ith part of the cotht of oil crithith! Fuel i

...in the olden days” (Exhibit A, by none other than Dawkins: “all religious people are deluded”).

Firstly, he calls himself a philosopher and an intellectual, but writes off people who “took too many philosophy classes” or “read too much Wittgenstein

...was, for a certain type of middle-aged white-collar worker, a revelation. People like the JC. During lockdown we reacquainted ourselves with the local ’ho ...ement was discombobulated too. The work-creation machine struggled to find people whose time it could waste: everyone was out of sight, out of mind. For a ti

:—'''Incoming''': Don’t take calls from junior people. Encourage teams to own their BAU knowlege.

...part of these law firms — they are peopled by tireless, astute and upright people, to be sure — but it ''is'' to wonder about [[Causation|cause]] and [[Cor

...ts and shareholders. We take it for granted that the firm, and the natural people engaged on its behalf, acts in the firm’s own best interest, as independe ...nctioned [[metaphor]] for continuously fluctuating, indeterminate bunch of people. A bunch that is neither static, nor uniform (shareholders, employees of di

...h material, BUT YOU ARE THE BEST IN YOUR BUISINESS, RIGHT? That is ''why'' people are prepared to hear you out, isn’t it? So this is your challenge. ''Find

...acting on the whole operation. If these people really are better than your people, ''you should hire the reg tech firm as a recruitment consultant'', not to

Nice work if you can get it. A lot of people in the city can get it. ...t [[onboarding]] team, [[compliance]] or [[internal audit]] — who of these people would ever say that? And even if one did, would {{sex|he}} not be shut down

...can’t be blamed for failing to work when misapplied. Guns don’t kill; the people holding them do.

...lf points out, with reference to a transcript of the Watergate Tapes) when people talk in ordinary conversation they almost ''never'' use complete grammatica

...there, but he does cast a kindly glance at {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}. (I like people who cast kindly glances at {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}: these days, they’re fe

{{quote|''Most people do not need to take vitamin supplements and can get all the vitamins and mi

...nt as any societal shift in human history. Generally, this is not news for people in the IT industry, who deal with its implications day-to-day, but for our ...nt and scientific knowledge, the web is too weird, too [[non-linear]], and people’s applications for it too dynamic and unpredictable and the “true meani

...Your only decision is “whether me caring about polar bears will make more people buy my stuff, and thereby increase my bottom line”. ...l, if you don’t like what they do, don’t use ’em. That’s the way I see the people’s power is.”

...l-night deal-making: papers, markups, files, cold coffee. ''Everything but people''. Sheer curtains billow, and then Sutton clocks it: ''the balcony door is ...l-night deal-making: papers, markups, files, cold coffee. ''Everything but people''.

...gin loan, as is stock loan. These resemble traded contracts, and sometimes people forget they are loans, but they are. ...t. When your business is handing over large quantities of liquid assets to people you don’t know well, in the expectation of they will return them later, t

Her old chum was livid. “We ''need'' our people, Cass. They do productive things. You know, [[MIS]] reports. [[Steerco]] [[ ...ort of people who would sling their redundancy payoffs into Dogecoin these people were doubly exposed should [[crypto]] go [[Seins en l’air|''titten hoch''

...ftware. It won’t last forever: killer software developers can charge a few people a lot of money, but they have to keep improving their software to stay ahea

...ital]], or “[[AT1]]” which, when said aloud, sounds like “[[eighty-one]]”. People got excited about it. Our favourite [[Credit Suisse|lucky pooch]] even wond

Yet you don’t hear many people in [[financial services]] talking about how to handle [[normal accidents]]. ...s of the [[Heath Robinson machine]] — but who will turn out to be just the people you wish you hadn’t fired {{shitfan}}.

...e commerce has worked this way, helped by the enlightened unselfishness of people like Tim Berners-Lee<ref>The World Wide Internet.</ref> and Jimmy Wales<ref

...o the heavens, with Melvin on it. It is horrifying. Seismic. Not possible. People shriek,“jump, Melvin, jump,”

...identical. This sleight of hand subtle enough to have eluded the notice of people as smart as Neil De Grasse Tyson.</Ref>

...r blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first. His shoulder-length hair was freezing in clumps. He should have stuc

...woodland sprites and hippies; a kind of peaceable pre-derivative, banking people, largely unconcerned with material wealth but blessed with a preternatural

...hetical answer of the actual parties, but with that of notional reasonable people in the position of the parties at the time at which they were contracting.}

...rol room was filling with experts; later in the day there were about forty people there. The phones were ringing constantly, demanding information the operat

...dustry was born which, to this day, employs literally tens of thousands of people and wastes hundreds of millions of pounds in compliance each year.

...are tangential to that idealised state (fitness, experiences, meeting new people etc), and you can use what you learn to dynamically adjust your pattern of

...ne, instead, that she spends her day answering stupid questions, educating people who should know better, wrestling with bureaucracy, hamstrung by rigid poli ...'' [[Horizontal and vertical escalations|horizontal escalation]], ''more'' people [[Internal audit|auditing]] and monitoring [[Service level agreement|servic

...ort in its cause expands it mass and lends it gravity, such that those who people its onward trajectory fall under its influence and then into its orbit: the

But, his son [[Don Iolio]] rebuffs him, saying, “surely you of all people should know, spice broking is a [[complex]] business, and no mechanical con

...crew their (brain)children up. Once a contract is inked, sensible business people will not cast it a backward glance.<ref>I have a theory, that I haven’t q

...nty of folks in the hedge fund industry make a decent living copying other people’s trading strategies too.<ref>As Chamath Palihapitiya wryly notes on CNBC ...out of the same good intentions that pave many a road to hell: some little people will, eventually, get hosed here, and they could say they were intervening

...range a chance it must have been that has picked fortuitously from a whole people no fewer than twelve examples of a species so rare, they immediately invest

...ay one step ahead of his enemies, quelling any fomenting dissent among his people.

...it will head off an inordinate amount of pre-negotiation faffing, chasing people up for input, and sets a clear business priority.</small> |{{bg|pink}}<small>'''Low to nil''': This is not exciting, the procurement people will hate it, and IT will say things like “why don’t you just use docum

...ation]]''': like [[cross default]], only for a kinder, gentler world where people wait for [[indebtedness]] to be actually [[accelerated]] before closing out

{{Opco People}} ==People and places==

...book: mainly technologists and other refugees from “big law” — [[Lazy|lazy people]] like yours truly with no stomach for the paper-war pantomime — but in a

*'''Weirdo whistleblowers''': The people who called it out were unglamorous, outsiders, easy to categorise as cranks

You may see people try to squeeze a [[reasonableness]] standard into their obligation to contr

...ctual property” enabling incredible advances in the standards of living of people all over the world. The remarkable tolerance for new ideas and acceptance o ...hich has defined a generation of which the JC proudly declares membership. People still listen to your music and you have a healthy forward flow of royalty i

...tlement failures — is it better to keep all of that fidgetery and move the people who handle it out to Hanoi — or just ''strike it out of your contract for

...cultural sharing and a non-verbal conveyance of mood and sentiment between people. It is to skip the creative process altogether and go straight to publishi

...objection to “we” as it introduces an ambiguity, in that it may mean “the people on our side of the table” and it may mean “you and me collectively”.

...In]] to save you the bother of composing your own unctuous endorsements of people you once met at a [[business day convention]] and who have just [[share]]d

...ill’s premise is this: barring near-term cataclysm, there are so many more people in our future than in the present, that our duty of care to this horde of s

...t is messy and unreliable. Are there really no other creditors? What about people claiming under a tort?<ref>Okay, I know, I am reaching here a bit. But stil

...rules be above criticism: times change, unintended consequences emerge and people make bad rules. Practitioners are the first to apprehend them. They should

...ntion is paid to how this [[proxy]] [[diversity]] affects the behaviour of people in the organisation, for good or ill.

...urrency, for or against — and in financial services, that seems to be most people — this is an as good a foundational text as you could ask for. It does no

...e in that wonderful place. He drank in the beauty. These were his kin. His people. His ''life''. His ''home''. These were ''his'' tranquil traditions. The an ...is Waterloo. ''I do this for the cause'', he thought. ''For all operations people, everywhere''.

...roduce it. It was a function of money and assets and not trading. The more people traded, the less real alpha there was per trade.

...lting pot: a pot-pourri. I go there a lot. I saw action there. I enjoy the people, the culture, the cuisine — But it has no English law tradition, Punchfac

...g pot: a ''pot-pourri''. I go there a lot. I saw action there. I enjoy the people, the culture, the cuisine — But it has no English law tradition, Punchfac

...Mr Hayes did dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people?