Seeing a chance to put Hercules out of commission for a while, Juno wants to borrow Sleep for a couple of hours, and Pasithea agrees.

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If the weather, mechanical troubles or other mishaps put an aircraft out of commission, the firm often has roughly a dozen "hot" planes in different locales that are ready to take up the mantle.

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Those who are very aggressive traders have been long and short in the financials for months to the point that the Securities and Exchange Commission put out a list of companies that could not be shorted.

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It said anyone who proposed to put forward procedural arguments in favour of further delaying the inquiry must set them out in writing to reach the commission by 24 August.

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The point is that the UK banks' downgrade is an inevitable consequence of government policy to reduce the likelihood that they would be bailed out in a crisis - of which the most conspicuous manifestation has been the Vickers' commission recommendations to put retail banks behind a ring fence and make creditors to banks explicitly liable to losses.

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