Whatever Catherine, now five months pregnant, might have been meaning to say, the story has prompted a rash of headlines in UK newspapers.
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To make short-selling faster, there are rules that say all traders need do is "locate" a share of the stock they want to short, meaning they find someone to say they have the shares to lend out to them.
However, that's not to say she doesn't want people to look for deeper meaning behind her songs.
One of the things you never heard was anybody in this room -- meaning me -- say that this was going to be a dollar for dollar -- that dollar for dollar we were going to meet the downturn in overall loss of GDP.
Meaning, the game would present a scenario to you, say, an open room with three heavies, two snipers and eight regular troops, approaching you from all angles.
The IRS is proposing new rules that might be construed to say that charter school teachers are private employees, meaning they could no longer participate in government pension plans.
They say the handsets have not been tested to meet safety standards meaning that they may suffer higher than recommended radiation levels or battery leaks.
First, though, since words in Ithkuil are assembled from individual atoms of meaning, he had to engage in some introspection about what exactly he meant to say.
Critics of the tax say it is flawed because it is not indexed to inflation, meaning that an increasing number of people will have to pay it.
Financiers say the big institutional funds, meaning your pension and mine, will have to be persuaded to join in if expectations and targets are to be met.
Presidents have been known to say that they feel stifled governing from the environs of the Rose Garden, meaning that they believe they have to get out from the bubble that is life in the White House if they want to maintain a feel for America and Americans.
You could say something five different ways, and each time it'll have a different meaning to somebody.
The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock, meaning that new shareholders will have little say on the team's future.
It is mostly a hodgepodge of local fighting groups with no clear chain of command, meaning it could prove difficult to rein in if Mr. Assad is driven from power, these people say.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., 14 percent of us save 15 percent or more of our income and 51 percent of us say we are either in immediate financial trouble or not financially stable, meaning living paycheck to paycheck.
Meaning there may not be, as these stories infer, less interest in what Mr. Obama has to say than in what happens on American Idol, but far less interest in whether Nielsen gets to take their attendance.
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