The defense of greed is a paraphrase of the May 18, 1986, commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, delivered by arbitrageur Ivan Boesky ( who himself was later convicted of insider-trading charges ), in which he said, " Greed is all right, by the way.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

The revolution now under way in materials handling makes this much easier.

The uncontrolled maxim fails to take into account that a person who does not produce in an economic or political way makes a country poorer, not richer.

One aspect in the art of lapidary involves correctly cutting the stone to place the color in a way that makes the tone of the finished gem homogeneous.

Beethoven wrote this piece in triple time, but it is punctuated in a way that, when coupled with the speed of the metre, makes it sound as though it is in quadruple time.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

This makes it much more likely that the Cisalpine Boii had actually originated from Bohemia rather than the other way round.

A formula of propositional logic is said to be satisfiable if logical values can be assigned to its variables in a way that makes the formula true.

While this is true on one level, what makes it complex, difficult and frustrating are the barriers that come in its way.

From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.

Rotating the driving member the other way makes the spring wrap itself tightly around the driving surface and the clutch locks up.

The shaft is wider at the bottom than at the top, because its entasis, beginning a third of the way up, imperceptibly makes the column slightly more slender at the top.

The use of folders makes it easier to organize files in a logical way.

Or there can be corroborating evidence related to a certain source, such as what makes an author think a certain way due to the evidence that was supplied by witnesses or objects.

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

If the limit exists, meaning that there is a way of choosing a value for Q ( 0 ) that makes the graph of Q a continuous function, then the function f is differentiable at a, and its derivative at a equals Q ( 0 ).

Assuming that the visible material makes up only a small part of the cluster is the most straightforward way of accounting for this.

Albert Ellis advocated the use of E-prime, especially in writing, as a way to avoid muddled and blame-based thinking that makes psychotherapy patients distressed.

* Encapsulation ( object-oriented programming ), enclosing objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes

She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does.

The terminal node sends a reply that makes its way back to the originator along the route specified by the intermediate nodes ' records of pending requests.

Scarlett makes her way to Tara without him where she is welcomed on the steps by her father, Gerald.

In a very universal sense, hacker also means someone who makes things work beyond perceived limits in a clever way in general, without necessarily referring to computers, especially at the MIT.

The traditional way is to stand the cases in a shallow pan full of water, then heat the necks of the cases with a torch, but this method makes it difficult to get an even heating of the entire case neck.

The settlement compensated the Natives for the collaborative use of their lands and opened the way for all Alaskans to profit from oil, one of the state's largest natural resources.

Copyright initially was conceived as a way for government to restrict printing ; the contemporary intent of copyright is to promote the creation of new works by giving authors control of and profit from them.

The house edge tells them what kind of profit they will make as percentage of turnover, and the variance tells them how much they need in the way of cash reserves.

* speculate and make a profit if the value of the underlying asset moves the way they expect ( e. g., moves in a given direction, stays in or out of a specified range, reaches a certain level );

All trying to better position themselves in a way to acquire a higher status within the Company, which in turn, would carry more personal profit ; but sought after such goals in a meaningless ineffective lazy manner, mixed with a sense that they were all merely waiting, while trying to stay out of harm's way.

( It should be kept in mind that like the terms " labor " and " value ", the terms " price, " capital ", " land ", " profit " and " rent " here are being used in a theoretical way which will not always correspond to everyday use, even by accountants.

And we value things, price them, based on how much labor we can avoid or command, and we can command labor not only in a simple way but also by trading things for a profit.

Werblin's partners, Townsend B. Martin, Leon Hess, Donald C. Lillis, and Philip H. Iselin, had a falling out with Werblin over the way the team was run — though the franchise had begun to make a profit, Werblin was making all the policies and decisions himself with little or no input from his partners, much to their dismay.

The criminal organisation, much in the same way as assessing pleasure or pain, weighs up factors like legal, social and economic risk to determine potential profit and loss from certain criminal activities.

Another way to state the rule is that a firm should compare the profits from operating to those realized if it shutdown and select the option that produces the greater profit.

Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

The original conception of socialism was an economic system whereby production was organised in a way to directly produce goods and services for their utility ( or use-value in classical and Marxian economics ): the direct allocation of resources in terms of physical units as opposed to financial calculation and the economic laws of capitalism ( see: Law of value ), often entailing the end of capitalistic economic categories such as rent, interest, profit and money.

Along the way, following the example of Judd, Westrum slowly realizes his own self respect is far more important than profit.

Alternatively, an intermediary may wish to make a profit by acquiring financial assets and repackaging them in a way more attractive to investors.

Linear programming ( LP, or linear optimization ) is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome ( such as maximum profit or lowest cost ) in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear relationships.

* Royalty points a way of sharing profit between companies and unit holders.

The producers realize that the best way to recoup their money and make a profit, is to bet on Gideon dying — which would bring in a profit of over USD $ 500, 000.

Nevertheless, PMCs may use armed force, hence defined as: " legally established enterprises that make a profit, by either providing services involving the potential exercise of force in a systematic way and by military means, and / or by the transfer of that potential to clients through training and other practices, such as logistics support, equipment procurement, and intelligence gathering ".

These corporations finance and profit from the development of large scale ecotourism that causes excessive environmental degradation, loss of traditional culture and way of life, and exploitation of local labor.

All of Domino's clients who had their tickets stolen are also being held there and used as slave labor, both to make a profit with the coral mining and as a way to keep Hector's scandal quiet.

Little profit found its way to the poorest people, however, a fact reflected in the standard of living of colonia dwellers, of whom an estimated 52, 000 lived in 366 colonias in 1986.

* There is no arbitrage opportunity ( i. e., there is no way to make a riskless profit ).