For those doubting Thomases who think the market is much too efficient to be affected by a few banks and funds selling options, it is worth bearing in mind that in the early 1990s one man single-handedly drove the implied volatility on Japan's Nikkei-225 average from 22% to 11% by dint of selling 34, 000 options on it.

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It introduces her early on to heavy workloads in the fields and at home, and to bearing children at an age when complications are much more likely.

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In the early 1980s, there were some 29 abortions per 1, 000 women of child-bearing age.

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