Yes, the alchemy is foggy, but the lesson is clear: Bet on John Malone.
But the film performs reverse alchemy: it turns gold (a forty-million-dollar-plus budget) into lead.
It is a clever book ostensibly about spying, yet really about writers and the alchemy of fiction.
The alchemy he applies is a blend of Silicon Valley smarts with Asian connections.
Indeed, Mr Zapatero has performed a kind of reverse alchemy, transforming economic gold into political lead.
If you want to invest in them, make sure their earnings are real, not just accounting alchemy.
He was a devoted alchemist, and in fact wrote more about alchemy than he did about science.
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But despite this ambiguity, there is sense that this social alchemy might very well lead to innovation.
William Baird is currently going back into private hands, being bought by the venture capitalist, Alchemy Parnters.
His next film - A Field in England, a story of alchemy and magic mushrooms - is already shot.
Lower tax rates on capital gains and income caused a miraculous reverse alchemy.
When it comes to acquisitions, there's a certain amount of financial alchemy involved.
And of course, a juicy fee is involved for performing this tax alchemy.
It was social alchemy and being on Facebook used to be tremendous fun.
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Rely upon your common sense and do not be swayed by financial alchemy.
Solar power is the ultimate alchemy, using something free to create something valuable.
Tony Woodley, Transport and General Workers Union official, said he believed an Alchemy deal could still be done within hours.
Natural Resource Partners plans to take advantage of the same financial alchemy as energy partnerships such as Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.
How he did it is beyond my comprehension, though his secret must have been some alchemy of supercomputers and superb taste.
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Alchemy had a long term strategy and whoever takes over we could be faced with the same problem in three months' time.
In a bad piece of alchemy, print dollars turn into digital dimes.
But he was also a glory hound who fought crime, dabbled in the occult, practiced alchemy, and wrote volumes of Christian heresies.
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This is the modern alchemy--and increasingly viable global business--of synthetic liquid fuels.
In a half-page illustrated article, the paper praised The Beatles for what it called their "unique and strange alchemy of sounds and words".
Though it brought practical benefits, and even attracted the attention of eminent scholars like Thomas Aquinas, alchemy was not granted admission to the curriculum.
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The real problem with alchemy as the title of Boyle's book points out was not that it was lower-class, but that it was not sceptical enough.
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And thus it might have remained, but for Robert Boyle, a rich well-connected Englishman, who was interested in alchemy but embarrassed by his interest.
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Many countries passed laws forbidding the transmutation of metals, even as their kings secretly patronised alchemy hoping to gain an advantage over other monarchs.
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Its characters cowpokes, anarchists, plutocrats, private eyes, coked-up undergraduates discourse learnedly on alchemy, electromagnetism, the existence of a fourth dimension and the theories of Nikola Tesla.
Known for being gregarious, he chatted up his physician on the subject of alchemy as he lay dying in bed at the age of seventy.
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