In a statement, Burns said he fought the good fight and came up just a bit short - about 3, 400 votes short out of a little under 400, 000 cast.
Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.
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With this in mind, spa breaks and short out-of-town vacations are wonderful ways to reward the hard work that mothers undertake each day, while providing them with a break from the rigorous and strenuous routines of everyday life.
Strachan has had a short spell out of the game after leaving Celtic in May, but the 52-year-old has considerable managerial experience of the English game after spells in charge of Southampton and Coventry.
" The truth, he said, was that the Americans had pushed only a short distance out of the airport into a suburb where they had been surrounded by Iraqi troops, with "three-quarters of them slaughtered.
Given the overallocation into cash, bonds, gold and any other asset that creates a sense of security, not to mention all the short sellers out there, one must assume that the greatest harm to the most number of investors will be done through a sizable move to the upside over the next 6-8 weeks.
The t heory that the article was simply an attempt to manipulate the stock lower and allow a short to get out (the author was short) makes the most sense to me.
The SEC's anti-naked short-selling restrictions also continue in place, including a requirement that short sales be closed out within the settlement period, with penalties on further short-selling activity if the close-out isn't followed.
When savings rates rise, but savers hoard, rather than invest, the central bank pushes its newly created money out of short-run credit markets and out into the whole yield curve.
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Growing short interest, says Johnson, is not only an indicator of growing pessimism toward the stock but also serves as a "built-in bid" if the stock continues its upward move and short-sellers buy shares to close out their short positions.
Still, there are benefits to having short-sellers out there, as the authors point out.
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However, it falls short in pointng out the existing perils that have now become game changers.
The good book says for momentum traders to go out short under that scenario!
And, observers said, speculators may be piling on, taking out short positions to benefit from the downdraft.
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And seconds after launch, a short circuit knocked out computers that controlled two of three shuttle engines.
When the cash runs out, the powers-that-be take out short-term, high-interest loans, guaranteed against future oil production.
Garcia punched out short from the trees, chipped it 8 feet past the hole and two-putted for a bogey.
On the verge of a maiden double-hundred for his country, Bell picked out short extra-cover with a drive off Smith.
Some, however, was also buying to cover or close out short positions, as the number of total shorts fell by 2, 592.
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Taiwan's Leninist ruling party, in short, set out to change the society around it, but ended up being changed by it.
Short of going out and buying a faster processor, you can make your computer run even faster by uninstalling any unnecessary applications.
With Congress set to adjourn next week for the election season, time is short to work out the details of the plan and get it passed.
It said that if the stand-off was not serious enough to invoke the clause, then it was difficult to imagine what could, "short of all out war".
Islamic finance bans people from selling what they don't own, which rules out short selling, and from engaging in contracts deemed to have excessive uncertainty on either side.
That shored up the market and wiped out short-selling profits.
Individual investors will begin put buying, selling short and getting out of longs anytime the markets fall by more than five percent over a period of days or weeks.
The backup saved the day -- just as it did in July 1999 when a short circuit knocked out some engine controllers six seconds after Columbia lurched off the pad.
As cramped and flimsy as this keyboard is, it feels like an improvement over the touchscreen when it comes to pecking out short web searches and answering emails on the go.
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