Word: vanillas
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...have gone to ground and that they had no idea where he was. Executives said two years ago, the trader had a back-office job in the bank working on internal controls to prevent questionable and suspicious trades. He then transferred to a position trading in so-called "plain vanilla" stock futures in European markets. He earned a salary of about 100,000 euros (about $147,000). In his new job, he began trading far beyond his responsibilities, racking up debts as global markets gyrated. To cover his losses, he created complex fictitious trades, until the losses appeared to spiral...
...wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways...
...wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways...
...Much of the glitz and glamour of the campaign has focused on the dual historical firsts of viable female and minority candidates in the race. However, if a white, male, Southern governor sounds too vanilla and too similar to some of our recent presidents, consider Huckabee’s personal story. It is one of the most compelling in the race...
Vigil participants warmed their hands by holding plastic cups of water containing vanilla-scented candles, one for each victim...