• When a government (like the present one) has a big majority, and when a prime minister (like the present one) is not interested in the Commons, the life of a backbencher can become mind-numbingly dull.

    ECONOMIST: Peer pressure

  • The execution of this trade would involve the purchase of the March 32 call and sell of March 33 call (buying a vertical spread) while simultaneously selling the March 33 call and purchasing the March 34 call ( selling a vertical spread) However, you put it in as one trade (a call butterfly) and then you can fill as one price on the whole trade.

    FORBES: Still Flying Into Housing Stocks? Consider This Options Strategy

  • Broadcast television has only one (advertising), satellite television has one and a half (subscriptions and a bit of advertising), and telecoms companies have two (telephone and high-speed Internet).

    ECONOMIST: European Media

  • Meeker rates ten of her stocks a "buy" (two according to First Call Corp.) and one a hold (3).

    FORBES: To be an Internet analyst

  • One's a little country (Ginger Hendrix), one's a little bit rock 'n' roll (Elizabeth Street).

    NPR: Zooglobble Favorite Kids' Albums of 2006

  • Unless of course you are the one who (a) owns the oil or (b) owns a lot of stock in the oil companies.

    FORBES: The Economic Benefit of Rising Gas Prices

  • The SS-AR2's incorporated drivers support a maximum input power of 100 watts through a 25 mm (one inch) soft dome, a 130 mm (five inch) sliced-paper cone and a 165 mm (six and a half inches) aluminum cone (double-drive system), producing a frequency response from 42 Hz to 60kHz.

    ENGADGET: Sony reveals SS-AR2 loudspeaker, wants an invite to your next house party

  • There's neither a new home console (Wii U) nor a portable one (PlayStation Vita) that relates to Microsoft SmartGlass effort.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: E3, Screen Two

  • Think about it: Kodak, traditionally a company that sold blades (film), proved that it can also make one fine razor (a camera).

    FORBES: Churn my camera

  • Dividing the exercise into a northern war-game (called Ladoga) and a southern one (Zapad-09) brought each below the 13, 000-troop threshold at which Russia is obliged to invite outside observers.

    ECONOMIST: NATO and Russia

  • An attorney (Stuart Wilson) and his wife (Sigourney Weaver) receive a visit from one Roberto Miranda (Ben Kingsley).

    NEWYORKER: Death and the Maiden

  • President Obama has declared himself the underdog (albeit one with a vision) and indeed a majority (55%) of Americans think he'll lose the next election.

    BBC: Republicans stuck with current field

  • Across all subjects, those where students performed exceptionally well included chemistry (up two percentage points to 34% gaining grade A), French (up three percentage points to 34% at grade A), German (up one percentage points to 34% at grade A) and economics (up 6 percentage points to 33% at grade A).

    BBC: Rise in top grade A-level exams

  • Greece is struggling to raise funds, but so is California, which accounts for a far bigger share of America's output (one-eighth) than Greece does of the euro zone's (a bit more than one-fortieth).

    ECONOMIST: Greece's sovereign-debt crunch

  • They pulled out a grenade, and they -- anyway, somehow, they started fighting, starting with a grenade, and then one of them grabbed a (inaudible) from one of the army forces.

    CNN: Transcript of John Walker interview

  • Absolut has recipes substituting Absolut Wild Tea in a Cosmo (not bad) and a Mojito (that one is tasty actually) and Wild Tea Gimlet, made with fresh lime and simple syrup (good as well).

    FORBES: Absolut Wild Tea: That is wild stuff!

  • The Duke sings "Possente amor (A great love)" while swilling Scotch from a bottle (one verse only) and "La donna e mobile (Women are fickle)" while swinging around the stripper pole.

    WSJ: Mayer's 'Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met

  • Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language (such as Swahili in East Africa) or a global one (such as English, Mandarin or Spanish).

    ECONOMIST: Endangered languages

  • It was hardly the ideal scenario for a man trying to save his Test career (Sourav Ganguly) and a youngster trying to build one (Yuvraj).

    BBC: Akmal continued his superb recent form to defy the Indians

  • Casting his net wide, Rahul Gandhi, the son of Congress's leader Sonia Gandhi, has suggested he would be open to this, and perhaps also to tie-ups with a former BJP ally in AP, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and a current one, the Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), in Bihar.

    ECONOMIST: The BJP enjoys an optimistic moment

  • The mortgage is a repayment mortgage and I have an endowment policy which at it's lowest prediction is set to pay off the mortgage (including the arrears) with a surplus (one of the few).

    BBC: The CML expect repossessions to total 30,000 this year

  • How and whether technology helped with accurate coverage of the crisis was one (a murky question).

    FORBES: Google's "Messages to Japan" Critics: Bad Arabic And What About Haiti?

  • The current then flows when it is not supposed to, and the wrong signal (a one instead of a zero) is received at the other end.

    ECONOMIST: Babbage’s last laugh | The

  • That is exactly what acupuncture does but rather than trying to cause just one reaction (a sneeze), acupuncture can stimulate a very wide range of self regulatory reactions.

    FORBES: Does NIH recommend acupuncture?

  • One is a (moderate) rise in charges.

    ECONOMIST: Move over, Brits

  • She contrasts a robust old order (patriarchy, community and work) with a demoralised new one (dandification, me-ism and shopping).

    ECONOMIST: American men

  • But depressed advertising revenues resulting from the economic downturn have made it a tough-go for many companies, such as Westwood One (WWON), a major independent provider of network radio content, which have to cope with industry headwinds.

    FORBES: Westwood One: Network Radio Content Provider Sees Broader Impact As It Joins Forces With Triton Media Group

  • This is awkward in France, where parties have been deeply divided over Europe since the referendum in 1992 for the Maastricht treaty (approved narrowly) and the one in 2005 for a constitutional treaty (rejected).

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Its storage potential is enormous: Dr Sheats says that initially, a single layer of memory the size of a sheet of writing paper will be able to store one billion bytes (a gigabyte) of data.

    ECONOMIST: Just press print

  • In the box you'll find a 5V 1.8A AC adapter (vs. 1.2A for the one supplied with the Nexus 4) along with a micro-USB cable (longer than the one provided with the handset).

    ENGADGET

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