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By contrast, the contemporary New Yorker was churned out by “punctuation castratos who have gone to bed with commas for a quarter of a century.”
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
muse-jhu-edu.alumniproxy.library.upenn.edu
Crudely oversimplifying, the rule in the US is that if you sell securities to accredited venture capitalists and they immediately turn around and dump them on retail investors, that’s bad, that’s a public offering of securities and you and the VCs get in trouble. But if you sell the securities to VCs and lock them up for a year, and at the end of the year the VCs dump them on retail, that’s fine, that’s allowed: You sold the securities under an exemption from registration (just to the VCs), and they sold the securities in a regular secondary-market transaction that doesn’t need to be registered.
UBS Cuts Out Credit Suisse - Bloomberg
Matt Levine
Another problem — and where the trickery often begins — is that Rotten Tomatoes scores are posted after a movie receives only a handful of reviews, sometimes as few as five, even if those reviews may be an unrepresentative sample. This is sort of like a cable-news network declaring an Election Night winner after a single county reports its results. But studios see it as a feature, since, with a little elbow grease, they can sometimes fool people into believing a movie is better than it is.
Rotten Tomatoes Still Has Hollywood in Its Grip
vulture.com
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