Word: persons
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Options are not like other insurance policies - say health insurance. Stocks tend to move together, whereas one person's health tends to vary independent of the nation's health. Risk to health-insurance companies decreases as the number of policies increases; risk compounds for options writers as their volume increases. Those writing put options have secured small gains for now, but they will suffer multiplied losses across the board should the market tank...
...There was nothing negative about the work environment, well, aside from me, who’s like why am I here till 8 p.m. at night?” Barth said, adding that being the first person to go home was a real taboo...
...stay until 7 or 9 at night just because I didn’t want to be the first person to leave,” she said...
...portraying the working-class employees as bloodthirsty psychopaths, while ignoring the larger, more systematic problems with the status quo.I love animals, don’t get me wrong. My best friend is named Tuck; he’s my cat. I am also bothered as much as the next person by the thought or sight of animals being mistreated. But to ignore, objectify, or blame the six billion HUMANS on the planet—many of whom are suffering whether from poverty, malnutrition, starvation, obesity, or any number of other things—is simply unforgivable...
...what’s most amazing to me as a young person trying to make sense out of the health-care saga is that, basically overnight, Joe Wilson made himself a central player in the health-care debate. His name may fade from the front pages in a couple of days, but his outburst will have left an indelible mark on the process...