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only vestiges left in Mr L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.
Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
When Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairperson (1996–99) Brooksley Born wanted to regulate the derivatives that would later be a major cause of disaster, the PBS program Frontline detailed how she was blocked in 1998 by the triumvirate of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and Deputy US Treasury Secr
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Balance far from equilibrium
Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
Son client, « Rosy » l’avait baptisé « de Niro », parce qu’il avait à peu près son âge, cette même tête de springer fatigué par on ne sait trop quoi et cet air de se foutre du monde et de tellement d’autres choses.
Jean-Paul Dubois • La Succession (OLIV. LIT.FR) (French Edition)
“handsome and pretty and educated and white”, who, according to the Times, not only “believed they owned the world” but “had reason to”. She was from a Pittsburgh suburb, Upper St. Clair, the daughter of a retired Westinghouse senior manager. She had been Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, a graduate of the Yale School of Management, a congressional inte
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