The second effect relates to deals where Lehman was a counterparty, ie, a buyer or seller of a swaps contract.

ECONOMIST: The fallout from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.

BBC: The Greek conundrum

Instead of working to a pre-arranged formula, a generator (ie, a parser in reverse) is brought into play to create a sentence structure in the target language.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues