Individualism, as a definition of holding to personal ideals, is classed as obstinacy and anti-social. Inevitably we run point blank into the evils of compromise. When compromise enters our moral fiber, it spreads like a cancerous growth. We think we plan adequate safeguards around areas in which we contemplate yielding our standards, but once we lower the fence and break our strong will to do right, come what may, we expose ourselves to forces that spread beyond control. Compromise always starts on some rather insignificant principle. The dangers of yielding seem negligible and we usually risk those things first where observation and detection by others is difficult. We thus seek to avoid censure and discipline. In a short time we find ourselves trading our principles for false values and doing it in the black market of human relationships. . . .
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What it really says is the future of institutional equities will be more like fixed income - a business of proprietary trading and customer execution with customers evolving away form being a client and acting more like a counterparty, ... This idea of a fixed income model for equity - taking risk - seems to be working, he said.
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He is coming here as the head of the world's most powerful nation and our strongest trading partner.
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The earnings quality was weak because the earnings growth was driven by lines that are very hard to forecast or unpredictable like trading incomes and acquired loan portfolios. These were the lines that really drove the earnings results and were unusually high this quarter.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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We are delighted with Ford's success in 2005. Although the industry as a whole is growing, trading conditions are still extremely competitive with greater variety of models now on offer.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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Pringle is on Bond Street to announce its brand and set it up in the right way, rather than to do a lot of trading,
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We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
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