If you are offered a roll, break it in pieces and butter each piece individually just before eating it.

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Pierre Pourquery, of Boston Consulting Group, says it is not uncommon for investors to break their exotic purchases into smaller pieces in order to feed them into their risk-management systems.

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But unlike the other Maiden Lane assets already sold by the Fed, the Triaxx CDO is more of a notorious villain of the 2008 financial crisis and may present more of a challenge for banks looking to break it up and sell it off in pieces.

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They break down into pieces that thicken the dish much like an egg does in a carbonara.

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Break the image, see the glimmer of beauty in the crevices of the fractioned pieces.

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