Word: exactions
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...We’ve heard they’ve been changing around their lineup a lot,” Hall said. “They’ve been slotting injured players around, so it’s always a mystery. If we were playing the exact same lineup, I’d have no doubt every single one of us could...
While Allied Irish was measuring the damage to its bottom line and its reputation, traders everywhere were coming under closer scrutiny from nervous supervisors. Most worrying for banks and their regulators is that Rusnak may have used the exact same method as Leeson: when he began to pile up losses in currency trades, he allegedly hid these by fabricating other deals that, on paper, showed him making profits. Leeson was able to conceal his activities for two years because, like many traders at the time, he was authorized both to make and to settle his deals. In the aftermath...
...clearly nobody was paying enough attention when, at some point last year, Rusnak began to run up losses. He seems to have bet that the yen would strengthen against the U.S. dollar, but the exact opposite happened. Normally, currency traders reduce such risks by buying options to hedge their positions; in Rusnak's case, he would have had to enter into options contracts for dollars. But the options he is said to have bought turned out to be fakes...
Sure, it’s a routine sound during most hockey games—the result of a player hitting his stick on the ice. Three times, to be exact...
...Next she took the turkey, already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs to have the same amount of turkey, and placed it evenly on the roll. Then came the cheese, four perfect triangles, that were, when laid out next to each other, miraculously, the exact same length as the bread. Tip-to-tip, end-to-end. Next, four tomatoes, one per slice of cheese, and then the lettuce, a fistful (her fistful), before an airy, noisy squirt of mayonnaise that lasted about two and a half seconds. She brought my perfectly engineered sandwich...