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  • … tradition. The definition given by Nonius [...] may, after all, embody the good fruits of republican scholarship. To be sure, the scholars were only half right. They should have mentioned in their definitions other meanings for the word, which they may have heard in the actual speech around them …

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  • … right, no action puts you at huge risk of an extended one way move. What about article on levered long-side ETFs? In a way, this is missing the larger point. The segmentation into long side and short side is — by definition — fragmenting liquidity in the marketplace. You want to participate in broad …

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  • … Railway Company (CNI) at .235gg and Kansas City Southern (KSU) at .152gg. Where those prices will be in FRN$ is anybody’s guess as the FRN$ is an unreliable tool for performing mental calculations of value because it has no definition. Until good values come around simply avoid the derivative illusion …

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  • … but Cameron is not the charismatic frontman that his bands have had. Even borrowing one for a few songs isn’t enough. 13. Apocalyptica: Cult [7]: Same thing again. Weakest Album: Chris Colepaugh and the Cosmic Crew: Trip [5]: This was made in the 60s, apparently. It’s the definition of derivative …

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  • … “ Unfortunately, Governor Patterson concluded that New York State didn’t have jurisdiction to regulate naked swaps. But he was wrong, the state has such jurisdiction. Naked credit default swaps fit the definition of gambling contracts and are illegal in New York (as well as most states). Section 225 of the New …

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  • … the complex derivative quality of Reason. For what definition of Reason can we accept that shall banish to lower region of instinct a multitude of cases in which a snake, a bird, an ape, plainly goes through the process of experience, observation, pausing, deliberation on experience, forming new …

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  • … early best ( The Birthday Party, say, or The Dumb Waiter, both 1957), Pinter’s was always a small and highly derivative literary gift–more of a handout, really. Indeed, I would suggest that his talent was not so much literary as histrionic, one of literature’s degeneracies. What Pinter dispensed …

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  • … Or: [The writer's] examination of Milton’s verse keeps turning into Sitwellian clap-trap. 9 Or: In this new short book he is more a Poundian than a critic. 10 In all three examples, the authorial adjectives intimate that the writer under scrutiny is derivative. While Hemingwayesque may be preferable to Hemingwayese …

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  • I guess an explanation is needed. My assumption was that the connection was fairly straightforward…apparently not, based on some verbal questions. So… First, roadie is a derivative of the “road crew” phrase used in the entertainment industry. Your average person hearing “road crew” would think …

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  • … by time. Time exists in the material world, but I argue that it does not exist in the spiritual world. Change in the spiritual world takes place instantly, by means of a change in definition. Jesus redefined God’s relationship to humanity, and though his activities took time here on earth, they took …