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.
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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Perhaps, Wolf suggests, the two tails of the alleged bell curve are fatter than we thought.
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But such an implicit guarantee created moral hazard: heads the bank wins, tails the taxpayer loses.
The Highways Agency is urging road users to remain vigilant and to respect the difficult conditions as the snowfall tails off.
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.
When you flip a coin, for instance, you know that the odds are that half the time heads will come up and half the time tails.
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.
The boost soon tails off and is now mired in the Amazon sales tax debate and its Cloud failure.
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Having carried marginal candidates into the House on his coat-tails, the president normally sees them swept out again two years later.
It has been forced to cede ground on this to its partners, British Aerospace and Dasa, which both want factories working on Airbus planes to be owned and run by the new company, even though the wings, tails and cockpits have to be flown around Europe in a specially converted aeroplane, known as the Beluga, before final assembly.
The impossible-to-replicate dinanderie vases (hand-hammered metalwork with applied metal inlays), the enameled cigarette cases depicting streets in Paris, the spiked walking sticks that are petrified stingray tails and the cocktail goblets dancing on their zigzagging silver stems, won't be making appearances on store shelves.
Until regulators agree on a common set of sufficiently high standards banks will seek cover under the thinnest regulatory blanket and lobby to make sure their tails wag the regulatory dogs.
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"They're getting birdy, " he says, as the dogs' tails begin to whirl in tight circles.
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.
The point is, in the current financial system where financial institutions are more broadly defined, we want to eliminate conflicts of interest where we can, we want to eliminate these cross-subsidies or "heads I win, tails the taxpayer loses".
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.
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.
From the perspective of mean reversion, fat tails help to create some of the best opportunities.
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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In contrast, we have long known of the existence of fat tails in asset markets.
"God is an Englishman" tweeds and tails meet the letter-sweater sporting life of America's monied elite.
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Even in the digital world, for all the talk about long tails, we are in a hit-driven world, and broadcast is a big part of that.
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Then in America I went and got tails, bought them in L.A. Then I found myself in a five-star hotel in Europe and I realized that the waiters were wearing tails.
He won an Academy Award in 1997 for best supporting actor in the film "Jerry Maguire" and starred in this year's "Red Tails, " about the Tuskegee Airmen.
"Red Tails, " the drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, was honored as outstanding motion picture.
We have had cases of cutting the hair on manes and tails, but this is beyond that.
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