Rumors have swirled about the possibility that the Knicks might move second-year guard Iman Shumpert, which would be easy to brush aside if it didn't make a perfect kind of Knicks-style sense, a team that cannot man-on-man defend trading away its best man-on-man defender.

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And new electronic-trading platforms have silenced Essex man's dulcet tones.

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But some critics say the SEC needs to do more to ensure that exchanges and trading firms are prepared for natural and man-made disasters.

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The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.

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The spot shows an Eskimo man getting in hot water with his wife for trading in his dog sled for a Kizashi, which he enjoys cruising across the frozen landscape with his dogs inside.

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Selfishness -- that is, concern with one's genuine, long-range interest -- she wrote, required a man to think, to produce, and to prosper by trading with others voluntarily to mutual benefit.

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One who did was a young man named Clarence Birdseye, who spent four years on a fur-trading expedition that began a century ago in 1912.

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