Business buzzwords: Platinum blonde

By the 1930s, platinum blonde hair was in vogue, and actresses Marian Davies and Jean Harlow personified the look of the early 1930s; oddly, hemlines went down again after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, helping to create the ..... theory of economics.

A ..... attack succeeds when a user is tricked into forming an inaccurate mental model of an online interaction and thus takes actions that have effects contrary to the user's intentions.

'The Mail on Sunday' called Andy Gilchrist, the fire union leader, a 'fat .....' for his 82,000 salary, but its editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, receives a basic yearly salary of 690,000 - so who's fat?

The Companies Act defines '..... equity shares' as equity shares issued by the company to employees or directors at a discount or for consideration other than cash for providing know-how or making available rights in the nature of intellectual property rights or value additions.

A European-type payer ..... gives the owner the right to enter a swap at a predetermined fixed rate, where s/he pays the fixed leg of the contract and receives the floating leg, i.e. the Libor rate, at the expiration (maturity) of the option.

Dell bucked the upward trend in hardware manufacturers by closing lower; like Apple and Gateway, the company saw ..... initiated by Needham & Co. though the Austin, Tx. based company was rated a 'Hold', which is a somewhat negative rating.

Stock prices used to have a fractional component, which was generally quoted in sixteenths of a dollar (called a ..... by stock market insiders), but there are no major stock markets that trade in sixteenths nowadays - The NYSE converted to the decimal system on January 29, 2001.

The report filed with the SEC added details of the 'corporate .....' Black and Radler created at Hollinger: it said they treated the company as a 'piggybank' and fashion accessory, with Black using the prestige of the newspapers to gain access to the wealthy, powerful and royal.

..... is based on an assumption that most stocks will complete the first stage of a movement; some of the stocks will cease to advance and others will continue, and the dealer intends to take as many small profits as possible, not allowing them to evaporate.

It was agreed that in response to the clamor of the outside public, Daniel Drew was to be officially ousted, and a ..... director put in his place, while he remained in actual charge of their mutual affairs; this was done at the stockholders' meeting of October 18, 1867.