The good news is that the swaps markets did not utterly seize up after it went bust on September 15th.
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For another, they know how to poke fun, using their art to critique, if not utterly blow up, social convention and ignorance.
Among those, that is, who are not utterly engrossed by tonight's contest between the mighty United and the recently mighty Queen of the South.
Fears of a German invasion of New York were improbable, if not utterly fantastic, but in a pre-nuclear weapon, pre-smart weapon age, the size of a navy really mattered.
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At that moment, the hideous issue of whether British banks remain both too big to fail and too big to save would become a highly relevant one again: it is not utterly impossible that the UK and its huge banks could seem a bigger financial risk than the eurozone.
Does that not sound utterly silly to anyone reading that statement? including any social conservative who might be?
Answer: only when it is utterly indefensible to not sell the stock.
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With South Africa as the designated mediator, these members of the South African Development Council and the African Union (A.U.) have failed utterly, and not for the first time.
Daisy is desperate but she is not any more desperate than her husband who is totally utterly desperate.
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He seems utterly unimpressed by my assurances that we do not want one.
Not surprisingly, this externally imposed Rube Goldberg arrangement proved utterly unworkable.
"I utterly reject that pessimism... we have not lost our way, " he said.
Wandsworth was not a violent place but it was one where the staff culture was utterly reprehensible.
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis says that the troika's diagnosis of the labor market is "utterly erroneous" and that the greatest challenge for employers is not a lack of cheap labor but a shortage of demand for their products.
Were it not for this statement, the veiled implication of the prior two sentences would be utterly meaningless.
Why not just snuff the SEC altogether and let the securities industry and exchanges completely and utterly regulate themselves?
And--not surprisingly--some people do brilliantly out of marriage, and others are utterly miserable.
He tried to say the sum was just like a present for a close relative--"When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed, " he explained--but that excuse was utterly unconvincing.
It's not happening all the time, he says, but there are too many occasions on which this "utterly unacceptable" behaviour has occurred.
What is more, if past experience is any guide, it is utterly implausible that this country would actually abandon a set of negotiations simply because its objectives were not satisfied.
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It tastes utterly wonderful - smoky, rich comfort food - but at the same time, it's not a bowl of red.
Seems like a simple lesson (the first few years of your career constitute an eight-hour-a-day test, FYI), but the hilariously haughty and utterly off-base email from a former lifeguard to his old boss published by Deadspin shows that not all young ladder climbers have grasped this logic.
In a rare case of the stars aligning, the film's Hollywood ending is utterly faithful to the last pages of Hammett's novel at least in spirit, if not dialogue.
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The media landscape is so utterly fragmented today that it is possible to look ridiculous to most observers while commanding the devotion of a not-insignificant slice that will support you 100% no matter what you do, because they love you or what you claim to stand for, or because they despise your enemies (see: Sarah Palin supporters).
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