Whatever it meant, it was not a subject deemed worthy of space in that evening's paper.

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Whatever way he meant it, "autistic" is often used as an insult and it's insensitive to use a term that describes a disability or a condition in this way, says the National Autistic Society.

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Because whatever gold meant to Wall Street before 2008, it has since come to stand for crisis insurance.

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Whatever Halliburton thinks the Court of Appeals meant to say, what it said was loss causation.

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And so I was amazed that he - whatever he meant - I don't think that was the way to approach it.

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This didn't seem to bother his dad, in fact John thought it seemed like his dad wanted to have a "division bankruptcy" whatever that meant.

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But a free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

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