This argument has, however, failed to persuade most legislators or market practitioners, who object to insider trading on the ground that it might deter outside investors.

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There are obviously some very able and very serious people in the business, but they are forced to use the procedures appropriate to this kind of market in which the ultimate object, better health, is concealed under a dozen layers of advertising, chicanery and what-not.

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Conservative voters who support Cain on other issues logically ought to object to this proposed interference in the free market.

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In a famous analogy, the economist John Maynard Keynes once likened the stock market to a beauty contest in which the object is to vote not for the prettiest face but for the face that the majority of voters will consider the prettiest.

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Three years later, they've got a phone on the market: a cute, palm-sized object that looks a bit like it's derived from the original Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iMac, all curves and transparent tinted plastic.

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The object of Deltacloud is to open up competition and choice in the cloud market, just as Red Hat Linux did in the hardware market, eliminating the switching cost of investing in a new stack of proprietary offerings and allowing cloud users to invest the savings into conducting application development that truly differentiates them.

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C. didn't object to the Merc's interpretation of the rule, intended to prevent market manipulation, not keep out competition.

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Think of the communications market as a pyramid with the globe-trotting, cost-is-no-object executive at the top.

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