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«Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)»
Author: Charles A. Jaffe
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bits, bits and pieces, cut into, descended, fractions, prices, quoted, Spanish
«Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.»
«The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
closeted, closets, come out of the closet, dislike, electric, electric light, prices, See of, the closet, vulgar, wages, water closet, water down
«There is no victory at bargain basement prices.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
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bargain, bargained, bargaining, bargains, basement, into the bargain, in the bargain, prices, The Bargain
«The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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Army
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afflicted, bare, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, drained, go up, high-priced, homes, incomes, prices, proximity, stripped
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