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Intelligent writers can produce intelligent prose using almost any instrument, but the medium in which they write will always have some more or less subtle effect on their prose.
Escape From Microsoft Word | by Edward Mendelson | the New York Review of Books
Edward Mendelson
The essential elements common to both libel and slander actions are (1) the defendant’s making a defamatory statement; (2) publication to at least one other than the plaintiff of that statement; and (3) identification of the plaintiff as the person defamed.
Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell Chapter II Defamation and Mass Communication
oclc.org
The rationale: Investors will buy a series of one-month Treasury bills instead of a bond that matures years from now if they think that will produce a better return. If this pushes the longer-dated bond’s yield too high, buyers will emerge so that the yield settles around a consensus for what rates will average over the bond’s lifespan.
Wall Street’s Latest Obsession Is an Unknowable Number
wsj.com
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