But for Ian Stewart, the story of Black-Scholes - and of Long-Term Capital Management - is a kind of morality tale.
But a fitted gun that's handmade in England over the course of two years--with parts constructed by specially trained craftsmen and adorned with personalized hand engraving--is a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Our cat is fairly neurotic -- a kind of cat version of, perhaps, Woody Allen -- and is not a huge fan of any kind of change, no matter how minute.
But the Barnes example needs to be understood for what it is: a one-of-a-kind situation where a move of still-questionable necessity that seemed destined to destroy the institution miraculously did not.
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And so it's just basically--"Eli The Barrow Boy, " the song, is just kind of a--it's just a tragedy of a very sort of sweet character, who just never really gets a break in life, I guess.
As the president, chief executive, and founder of Celera Genomics cra (nyse: cra - news - people), he is a kind of ready-made capitalist hero.
Searching for answers is a young anthropologist named Genevieve von Petzinger, who is compiling a one-of-a-kind database at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
Richard Lyons, dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, recently posited that to create a different kind of B-school graduate, the key first step is creating a different kind of B-school culture.
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This is truly a one-of-a-kind edition of The FORBES 400, universally recognized as the definitive list of the richest people in America.
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GeOS is a one-of-a-kind "operating system" for commercial use of OpenStreetMap, making use of the crowdsourced data intuitive, affordable and secure for developers to build services with it.
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This kind of homepage hi-jack is not worthy of a respectable company - it is the kind of thing best left to spyware.
Surfing the web on an e-reader is still kind of a last-ditch solution, something you might do should your computer, tablet and phone all explode simultaneously.
Brickyard Crossing, which used to host a Senior PGA event, is truly one-of-a-kind: four holes play inside the infield of the oval track, often with loud cars running by on test laps, linked by a tunnel to the fourteen holes just outside the stadium.
You can watch the wonderful Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore) on 'Bunheads, ' which I think -- in the best possible way -- is kind of a similar show.
The Pioneer SmartCradle for iPhones is compatible with all GPS enabled apps, including MotionX-GPS Drive and is the first of its kind to incorporate a built-in gyro sensor and accelerometer combined with an external antenna for improved GPS reception and location accuracy, even if GPS signals are limited by high rise buildings and tunnels.
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Some would say that there is a public-interest justification in the exposure of law-breaking of any kind by a public figure, which Mr Dallaglio certainly is.
The trans-America bid is the first attempt of its kind with a zero-fuel aircraft.
Not surprisingly, the new EV1 is a one-of-a-kind hybrid that combines proven off-road racing technology with a cutting edge drivetrain.
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Today, Stephen is a one-of-a-kind landscape artist, having depicted prominent cityscapes such as New York, Tokyo and Rome from pure memory.
The Smarter Energy Research Institute is a first-of-a-kind collaboration between corporate research and the energy and utilities industry to transform leading energy companies through the use of predictive analytics, system optimization and advanced computation to deliver better services to their customers.
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AEG, owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz, is a one-of-a-kind enterprise, not just because it owns premiere sports teams, arenas and real estate in some of the best locations in the world, but because it has become more successful than any other company in the world at integrating those assets and turning them into lucrative destination platforms with restaurants, stores and hotels.
This is an out-of-the-blue kind of pre-emptive legislation dealing with a problem that doesn't even seem to exist.
That amplifier puts out some very clean sound when paired with non-powered speakers, but this is the kind of setup intended for audiophiles looking for a simple secondary system -- exactly the kind of listener who cringes at the thought of lossy, compressed streaming audio.
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The haute joaillerie collection is made up of three one-of-a-kind sets featuring petal cut stones and diamonds.
In other words, the market is always strong for a one-of-a-kind painting or baseball card, but such demand doesn't necessarily translate to the rest of the category.
And it is this rich, rare, one-of-a-kind figure that is the golden grail from which woodworkers can create works of unspeakable beauty-and for which hardwood dealers can charge unspeakable prices.
Pizza Hut is launching the first-of-a-kind ordering app, allowing Xbox LIVE members in the U.S. to purchase pizza, wings, pasta and more from Xbox 360.
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