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...“And I can’t waste the ticket because somebody else could have had that ticket.”...
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...But PE can’t acquire a company that won’t sell at a plausible price....
...“We don’t raise money; people give it,” he says. “They have been generous.”...
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...The second is more representative but the index runs with the herd. Even if you outperform it, you don’t know whether everyone should have done better....
...But he didn’t. I didn’t think he would bite on mammoths, but he did,” Church said....
...One 35-year-old female customer in London, who asked not to be named, said: “Dating is bleak enough already, and I just don’t like the idea of commodifying that part of my life.”...
...If you don’t spend at least some of your day thinking about CCPs we can’t be friends....
...What it’s really saying is that you’re better off buying meat from long-standing British herds rather than importing it from other countries....
...But Coghlan said the stark choice was “disruption now, or destruction later from climate change — and the later isn’t much later any more”. Additional reporting by Laura Dubois in Brussels...
...The politicians “don’t do anything and it seems like they don’t want to listen. So we must do something . . . we don’t have anything to lose. And that’s dangerous. The man who has nothing to lose.”...
...Following the herd is just one of our cognitive biases. Others include loss aversion....
...Today a solitary elephant still hides in this vast national park, the last living remnant of the herds that used to wander the Klein Karoo freely before it was carved into settlements....
...Backing near-term inflation expectations out of market prices isn’t straightforward. You have to take a wide survey and make a best guess....
...“Indeed presumably like chickenpox we want people to get it and develop herd immunity before the next wave,” Sedwill added....
...“There will be less feta around, but I don’t think there will be any shortages.”...
...There was his grandfather’s trick of soaking his T-shirt in elephant dung to pass through elephant herds without danger....
...ranchers to respond to these higher prices with larger herd sizes....
...In this well-informed circle, following the herd can work. Local information can provide a similar edge....
...“But that doesn’t mean I’m willing to sell on the cheap.”...
...“It is an ancient tradition to move with the herd at the beginning of summer to upland pasture, taking advantage of nature’s abundance at that time of year.”...
...“I can’t sing, I can’t dance, but I can build,” she says. But the hotel was also a project born out of grief....
...An emu herds four leggy chicks into the turpentine trees that poke out of a sea of buffel grass....
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