There is a kind of short-hand in which we say the Fed prints money.
It may cultivate assumptions because it offers a short-hand for issues that often require deeper processing or more background to fully understand.
And, of course, Albert Einstein, whose very name we use as a short-hand for describing someone as a genius, was a lousy student. (As were many successful CEOs and entrepreneurs.) He literally failed his way through academics.
Elsewhere, the preferred technology for beaming television to mobile phones is known as DVB-H (short for digital video broadcasting to a hand-held).
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Tsang ordered stock brokers to report all short-selling trades to market regulators and ensure short sellers had stock on hand to cover their positions, with stiff penalties for non-compliance.
Kraft says it plans to use cash on hand and short-term borrowings to fund the purchase.
D-66, the little left-libertarian party in the country's ruling coalition, briefly upset the governing consensus and caused the country's mild-left prime minister, Wim Kok, to hand in his resignation, was short-lived.
Easter finally got the ball in the net after a by-now trademark run and cross from Bale, but the short-range effort cannoned in off his hand and was disallowed.
Irish's replacement fly-half Chris Malone was held up inches short and then Semisi Mapasua's back-of-the-hand pass, which put Tagicakibau in, was judged to have gone forward.
Not that they haven't thought about this: The cardinals are in "choir dress" during the voting, which has translucent lace sleeves under a short red cape, making sleight-of-hand tricks much harder.
England's bowlers stuck gainfully to their task, and as a parting shot Harmison forced Rudolph to fend off a short one and Graham Thorpe got his hand under the ball as it looped to the ground at short-leg.
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The 74-year old, who seems to have slowed down his creative output only marginally since his retirement last year, is currently working on a computer-animated short for his museum -- a rapid departure from his studio's distinctive, hand-drawn style.
On the other hand, Californian voters are a short-termist lot who remain sceptical about big infrastructure projects.
Protecting a first-leg 3-1 lead, Inter were forced to play more than an hour a man short after Thiago Motta saw red for a hand-off on Sergio Busquets.
He sat next to his right-hand man at Goldman, Gary Cohn, and in the same section as the short-selling hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and Nasdaq head Bob Greifeld.
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The England hopeful was hauled down just short but swift passing sent Hanley over in the left-hand corner.
On the other hand, funds raised their net-short position in the legacy report, having cut 1, 002 gross longs and 737 gross shorts.
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As Stephen Jones's last-minute penalty attempt dropped short of the posts to hand Ireland their first Grand Slam win for 61 years, unbridled Irish joy led to huge expectations that the feat would be repeated again this year.
On the other hand, the funds tend to suffer when short-term interest rates rise, or when turmoil subsides.
On the other hand, you should accelerate ordinary income or short-term capital gains into 1999, because these will be subject to the lower AMT rate.
After all it is easy to get an adrenaline rush and make thousands or millions of dollars in minutes depending upon how big a hand you want to play by trading Apple stock short-term .
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On the other hand, I tend to think that many libertarians are short-sighted when it comes to welfare programs.
On the other hand, a drastic, immediate deficit reduction could stymie short-term economic growth and lead to a double-dip recession.
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On the other hand, if you are buying a fund for purely short-term trading, be prepared to sell it quickly and do not treat it as a long-term position.
Or the short-term, the individual, the embarrassment, or the case at hand loom much larger than the long-term, the needs of society, the importance of telling the truth, or adhering to the law.
Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, will fall short of all of the goals, even though its economy is growing quicker than it has for a generation and it is putting children in school faster than any other region.
The 34-year-old finished off a set-piece for his first, firing Simon Heslop's short lay-off past Harriers keeper Ross Atkins, who could only get a hand to the ball.
On the other hand, Avis gets an interesting asset in an emerging category: short-term renting, where competitor Hertz has already gotten a foothold.
The steps, however, fall short of Shiite demands to break the current system, which allows rulers to hand-pick Cabinet members and other key posts.
Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in.
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