Word: letting
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Let's start with John Travolta, who plays Charlie Wax, a special operations agent for an unnamed but extremely bloodthirsty undercover American agency. To inhabit this role, he seems to have stolen Bruce Willis's bald head, along with the goatee Willis sports when he needs to look super tough and mature. This gleaming-headed Wax man has been sent to Paris to bust a drug ring and a terrorist cell. As a bonus, he will give machismo lessons to James (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a wonky polyglot who works as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador but longs...
...golden waves she's a Breck girl with a decent brain. These two do have chemistry, and when a sudden rainstorm catches them outside - doesn't it always? - she leaps at Tatum, wraps her legs around his waist and latches on to his luscious lips with hungry desire. Let the consummation begin...
...they have already exited proprietary trading, or at least limited their activities in that area dramatically. Goldman Sachs says proprietary trading makes up less than 10% of the firm's revenue. But many observers say the trading these firms do for their own accounts is much larger than they let...
...Continuing to let the market participants mix agency activity with prop trading is like letting my aunt Agnes play center in Sunday's Super Bowl game," says Elvin Riley, a professor who specialized in securities trading at Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business. "There is no regulation against it, and the ratings might go up, but it is such a bad idea...
...While Washington and Beijing seem very much at odds just now, we shouldn't let their current state blind us to how intertwined they have become, nor to parallels between America's rise at the start of the last century and China's at the start of this one. Whether they like it or realize it, their relationship is truly one thing too big to fail...