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But despite this ambiguity, there is sense that this social alchemy might very well lead to innovation.
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Take the financial alchemy that goes by the name of securitisation.
ECONOMIST: The bigger they are
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It was merely that the chymists thought alchemy unrespectable.
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The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves.
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In this leafy suburb of Columbus, a swing district in a closely contested state, voters were talking Wednesday about the Gore-Bush debate--and in the mysterious alchemy of public opinion, agreeing that it didn't change many minds either way.
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This may sound a bit like financial alchemy, but I can assure you that it can be accomplished in a liquid and transparent manner using exchange traded funds (ETFs) and publicly traded options.
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The crux of the issue is whether a desperate plea for money that the court is hearing this week will undermine one of the great acts of financial alchemy in recent years: to wit, cheap financing for bad creditors.
ECONOMIST: Steal industry
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The real problem with alchemy as the title of Boyle's book points out was not that it was lower-class, but that it was not sceptical enough.
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She uses dozens of beasts from the mythological canon and establishes new myths with matter-of-fact ease. (The idea of a Parselmouth a person who can speak to snakes seems ancient and fully formed.) She uses plot devices that could each fuel countless romantic comedies: a truth serum, transfiguration, time travel, invisibility, immortality, alchemy.
NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch