Word: exoticisms
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While derivatives can take on many forms, they all share certain similarities. No matter how complex a derivative may be, it is at bottom a security that takes -- or derives -- its value from underlying things that can range from the familiar (stocks or bonds or interest rates) to the exotic...
But the laws of supply and demand fail with heartening regularity once outside the walls of Littauer. Mother Harvard sends a steady flow of fellowship winners to Great Britain and other exotic destinations, there to mingle with, fellowship winners from Princeton and Yale.
Dust from cut plaster and exotic woods can be lung and skin irritants. Last year, a student developed a skin rash resembling poison Ivy after cutting some exotic wood, Doyle said.
The passivity of the character is barely credible, which is what Munro intends. The Gheg encounter, said to have occurred in the 1920s, is told to the narrator of a larger, more encompassing story by a woman whose reliability the reader is encouraged to suspect. Fact, fiction or a little...
Once in a while, however, students tend towards more exotic alcohol. For example, the "booze luge," the specialty of Acme Ice Company on 100 Kirkland St., has a small but devoted following.