Given the steady demand for index and ETF put options that have accompanied the rally, put premiums have risen considerably relative to call premiums, driving the VIX to a substantial premium relative to SPX historical volatility.

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Authorities are not releasing the name of the relative who made the 911 call but said the relative was the only other person home at the time.

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"The two metres is what we call the relative accuracy, " explained Dr Manfred Zink, the project manager for the TanDEM-X ground segment at DLR.

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Another relative recently got a call from Nicole Mansfield in which she said she was gone, but she'd be back to the United States for a visit soon.

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As the usual afternoon thunderstorms began to roil up on the horizon, someone rushed to a nearby shebeen, a beer hall down the rutted road, to use the telephone there to call a relative who lived in the area.

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And until recently telecoms regulators kept call charges too high relative to line rentals, discouraging greater use of telecoms.

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One of those clues is a car that was seen near Clements' home at about the same time a 911 call was made by a relative in Clements' home telling authorities about the shooting.

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Biden's comments have also become a fixture of both McCain and Palin's stump speeches as they look to stress what they call the Illinois senator's relative lack of foreign policy experience.

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Two-thirds of them are said to be from the Gamaat Islamiya, suggesting that the state has abandoned the relative leniency showed in response to the group's ceasefire call.

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Ongoing injury problems and a relative lack of match action has led to Owen being continually ignored for an international call-up by England boss Fabio Capello, who has given the striker only one cap - as a substitute in the 1-0 friendly defeat by France in Paris on 26 March, 2008 - during his two-year tenure in the role.

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During the past 10 days, in fact, speculators on the ISE, CBOE, and PHLX have bought to open 22.90 puts for every call on the shares, marking a near annual-high pace of put buying relative to calls.

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