Perhaps, Wolf suggests, the two tails of the alleged bell curve are fatter than we thought.
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You want hair from the tails of horses that live in very cold climates.
Lobstermen also notch the tails of egg-bearing females, and return them to sea to join the protected brood stock.
It's quite clear that what he's going for is the coat-tails of Tony Blair or Mo Mowlam, that's followership, it's not leadership.
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This rich stew was invented in the 16th century by African slaves, who were given only the leftover ears and tails of the pig to eat.
"Germans have a really close and positive relationship with southern Ireland, and this rides on the coat-tails of that, " said the acting editor of the English online news site, The Local.
It's tough to make heads or tails of Holly's report, especially since he follows the assertion that HTC is "considering" such a phone with a claim that it'll be announced within the next two weeks.
And given that (a) Wall Street is a cold-hearted place and (b) stocks have been moving in a straight up fashion on the tails of strong earnings, decent economic data, and a renewed plunge in the dollar, it is important to note that stocks have become overbought and are due for at least some sort of a pullback in the near future.
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The problem for traders is that it is much more complicated to create models for a world of fat tails than for a world of bell curves.
From the perspective of mean reversion, fat tails help to create some of the best opportunities.
Each evening we had just enough to prepare fresh lobster tidbits as an appetizer before going out to dinner, and we had a feast of two or three broiled-and-buttered tails for each one of us on our last night.
When car show organizers suggested Roth spruce up the grubby clothes he habitually wore, he acquired a top hat, monocle and set of tails.
These are the materials used to form dishes such as the warm salad of prawn tails, fish stew or pasta with sea urchin roe served in the restaurants of Villasimius.
For the Wiesenmaier family, sitting around a long, fold-down picnic table, drinking wine from plastic cups and preparing for a clambake of lobster tails and slow-roasted potatoes cooked by two chefs on an enormous outdoor grill, this pristine corner of the US eastern seaboard has tonight been transformed into America's most exclusive restaurant.
In contrast, we have long known of the existence of fat tails in asset markets.
Mandelbrot was writing about the presence of fat tails in the 1960s.
But in the case of fat tails, the losses for the option-writer can be so extreme that his capital is wiped out.
The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies.
Life is a series of heads and tails, and human beings try to describe rationale behind them ... when in fact it may be random.
Welfare groups say legislation does not go far enough and should also ban the docking of dogs' tails for cosmetic reasons and animals performing in circuses.
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Meanwhile, politicians there are doing their best impersonation of the Keystone Cops, chasing their tails, pointing fingers, bumping into walls, falling down, making some of us laugh, others cry or scream.
In 1991, the UK government amended the Veterinary Surgeons Act, thereby prohibiting the docking of dog's tails by lay persons from 1 July 1993.
In light of the fact that MSSB knew full well that, as a non-signatory, the terms of the Protocol were inapplicable to Fidelity, the heads I win, tails you lose posture adopted by MSSB with regard to its selective use of the terms of the Protocol was particularly opprobrious.
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He can use his turn to put the coin into the peculiarly quantum state of being both heads and tails at once.
Eager divers watch in wonder as these five to six metre creatures swim stealthily around the shoal in search of breakfast, their distinctive tails cutting silently through the water.
"God is an Englishman" tweeds and tails meet the letter-sweater sporting life of America's monied elite.
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In trying to find long tails everywhere, Mr Anderson risks diluting some of his idea's meaning and novelty.
Hill flipped a coin 100, 000 times to prove that heads and tails would come up an approximately equal number of times.
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