But I also think short-sellers benefited from a tilted playing field during the meltdown months.
With a tilted gnomon, a single set of lines can mark the hours throughout the year.
Like much of the Arab world, he was a young person who had to contend with a tilted playing field.
It features a tilted dome and houses plants from threatened Mediterranean environments.
To everyone's surprise, including their own, the young architects won with a dramatic design of a great tilted disk, a very fast professional start that produced an extraordinary building 12 years later, in 2001.
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There actually are cultural and economic conditions that would richly reward a right-tilted political party with a suitably re-authenticated grounding in political principle.
When a market is tilted badly toward what is, in many ways, little more than a broker of infrastructure access, something is obviously badly broken.
The production, created for the Welsh National Opera, was abstract and minimalist: Johan Engels's design featured a semicircle of dark bleachers and a forest of tilted black crosses that appeared intermittently, representing trees or pillars, and serving as a reminder of the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church.
It is fair to argue whether the balance should be tilted a touch one way or the other.
This is because fund providers charge higher expenses on the entire portfolio even though only a portion is tilted to value.
"Strong waves pushed water inside the boat and one woman screamed causing a commotion that tilted the ship capsizing it, " one eye witness said.
Its dazzling white marble roof is a walkable, tilted plane that slips into the Oslo fjord at the building's lowest point, rising from the harbor's edge as a series of angled, switchback surfaces to the structure's top.
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New software recognizes faces in a crowd even if they are in profile or tilted up at a 45-degree angle.
The cranes lining the river were tilted in a show of respect.
By measuring the amount of static acceleration due to gravity, the chip knows the angle a device is being tilted at with respect to the earth.
What is special about the Colorado Plateau is that it stayed remarkably stable while rocks all around it were being buckled and tilted during a continental uplift some 60 million years ago.
Conversely, a Northeast Asia MRC force could be tilted in favor of additional air and sea units with a smaller ground combat component in recognition of the capabilities of the South Korean army.
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In one room in his home in Cheshire, the jury was told, there was a pine bench seat which tilted up to reveal storage space beneath.
It is hardly a revelation anymore that the media play the news in subtle but tilted ways to protect what they think is a settled social good, such as access to abortion, no matter what.
But what had now turned into a scintillating see-saw contest tilted back Wigan's way again when Charnley instantly made amends by scoring himself.
Steven Bochco says his agent prepared him for a more muted reception to his first novel than that of his shows, including "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law, " which tilted the axis of TV culture.
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The portfolio is tilted to value stocks using a second value index fund.
The pale moonlit sky, seen through the branches of the rosewood tree, tilted back and forth like a bowl of swaying water.
The tax code is tilted toward debt, and a company that can afford to borrow money that does not is not using that tax benefit.
It belongs on the beach, tilted in the sand next to a blanket.
Kepler needs to witness three of these "transits" to detect a planet, so its early discoveries were tilted toward close-orbiting worlds (which transit more frequently).
The far bank of his Rhine river, for example, is tilted up too high, creating a scene, much as in a painting, that is optically wrong but expressively right.
He says if the wall tilted outward, that proves there was a problem.
In a society where the playing field can easily be tilted and the rules rewritten to one's advantage, restructuring will inevitably be slow.
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