Above all, calling the bluff of bankers by paying them much less would amount to a big bet.

首先，给虚富张声势的银行家们支付较少的薪资是一个大胆的冒险行为。

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Ironically, the only person outside our inner circle to mention it to me was a young progressive lawyer from Pine Bluff who was a big supporter of mine.

最滑稽的是，我们的圈子外唯一向我提到此事的人，是一位进步主义的年轻律师，他来自派恩·布拉夫，是我的一个大力支持者。

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The redesigned 300, introduced last year, dials back the goth froth in favor of a more practical, mature and aerodynamic design (the windshield is much more raked than before), and yet the car retains its from-a-mile-away profile: the big and bluff hood, the blingtastic grille, the pillbox roof, the chopped deck.

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Surely the most underappreciated number in the Ram spec sheet is its 0.36 coefficient of drag, given that the 2013 Ram's grille is larger, higher and more bluff than before, recalling the big-rig aesthetics of the mid-1990s.

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Despite his Scottish-sounding name, Sir Moir is a big, bluff character from the rugged north-east of England.

ECONOMIST: The man who took the bus from Aberdeen to America