That this newspaper admires Mr McCain for taking positions it agrees with may seem hardly surprising.
In addition, plenty of distressed-debt funds specialise in taking positions when things look ugly.
Effectively, that means that margin investors taking positions in the stock have to put up more capital.
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This is likely to discourage foreign traders, who may worry about taking positions in a currency that is more volatile than many.
Salma Yaqoob, leader of the Respect Party, said that George Galloway won because "the three main parties are not connecting, " and are all taking positions of austerity.
But he is also he trying to thread the needle of winning conservative Republicans without taking positions that might be used against him should he be the nominee.
And he feels that he has demonstrated his commitment to that, his commitment to taking positions that often are at odds with members of his own party repeatedly.
People are taking positions ahead of that actually happening.
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"We're moving beyond aggregating photos and taking more positions in the food chain, " says Steve B.
While women have made strides in the legal profession, at law firms few are taking management positions.
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Some in the party grumble that pundits have been slow to credit the Tories with taking brave positions on the economy.
Simons also played his chips, taking up positions in MasterCard and competitor Visa, while closing out his position in American Express.
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The Lebanese army has begun taking up positions in southern Lebanon.
Sir Hector began his City career as a stockbroker at Phillips and Drew, later taking senior positions at the investment banks UBS and Credit Suisse.
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Both market participants and regulators took comfort from the fact that the money-transmission and payments systems throughout America continued to operate normally throughout the week, but this did not lure many traders into taking new positions.
The GOP does not have to take the popular position on every issues, but it cannot be seen as taking radical positions on all ten that are contrary to what so many non hard-core Republican voters believe.
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These risks to the upside for oil prices make it likely that market participants will feel more comfortable taking long positions, or bets that prices will rise, than the opposite, said Glen Ward, head of retail derivatives at London Capital Group.
The tensions inherent in this approach are neither new nor unique to Goldman, but they have become much more obvious now that its traders have made hay taking short positions against debt instruments of a type peddled to clients by other parts of the bank.
The battle for invisible, but highly valuable real estate, also finds the supposedly unified U.S. delegation taking divergent positions on whether a key portion of the spectrum currently used by fixed wireless operators in the U.S. - the 2, 500-MHz to 2, 690MHz band - should be opened up to mobile users.
Taking their own positions, placing their own money on bets in the markets and making profits, not taking fees.
And, observers said, speculators may be piling on, taking out short positions to benefit from the downdraft.
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But after the 1984 elections Dole became Majority Leader, and Bair rose with him, taking top staff positions in his office.
However, taking more aggressive positions when the risk is too high and the technical outlook is mixed can often result in disaster.
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The trading desks of those banks will be operating in the same markets as the hedge funds and often taking the same positions.
Mercedes then bought the team, based in Oxfordshire, England, in 2010 and it is once again on an upward curve, taking three pole positions and two third-places on the podium so far in 2013.
At the same time the firm was betting against the mortgage market as a whole, Goldman assembled and aggressively marketed to its clients poor quality CDOs that it actively bet against by taking large short positions in those transactions.
Barclays Capital calls the drop in speculative positions primarily profit-taking and some establishing of fresh short positions.
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Outside Congress, the Republicans' presidential wannabes are taking up their starting positions for 2012.
It will be even better if Obama listens to them and changes his policy positions, taking their input and using it.
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