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We planned ahead only one step, a rendezvous for tomorrow when we could swap notes.
Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.
The steeper slope of the municipal yield curve allows participants to collect more after-tax income from the municipal bond portfolio than is spent on the interest rate swap ; the carry is greater than the hedge expense.
Running afoul of national currency laws, the community changed to barter coupons called Boon Kut Chum that bear a fixed value in baht, which they swap for goods and services within the community.
These barter markets or swap meets work without money.
In 2007, the United States reduced Costa Rica's debt in exchange for protection and conservation of Costa Rican forests through a debt for nature swap under the auspices of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act.
" Chiang even refused to negotiate a prisoner swap for his son in exchange for the Chinese Communist Party leader.
Some agencies do this by intentionally introducing small statistical errors to prevent the identification of individuals in marginal populations ; others swap variables for similar respondents.
Define swap () as with its real and imaginary parts swapped — that is, if then swap () is.
Equivalently, swap () equals.
For example, every polygon is topologically self-dual ( it has the same number of vertices as edges, and these are switched by duality ), but will not in general be geometrically self-dual ( up to rigid motion, for instance ) – regular polygons are geometrically self-dual ( all angles are congruent, as are all edges, so under duality these congruences swap ), but irregular polygons may not be geometrically self-dual.
Derivatives are broadly categorized by the relationship between the underlying asset and the derivative ( such as forward, option, swap ); the type of underlying asset ( such as equity derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, or credit derivatives ); the market in which they trade ( such as exchange-traded or over-the-counter ); and their pay-off profile.
* Interest rate swap: These basically necessitate swapping only interest associated cash flows in the same currency, between two parties.
* Currency swap: In this kind of swapping, the cash flow between the two parties includes both principal and interest.
The Curse of Davros begins with Davros and the Daleks working together to try and alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo using technology that Davros has created that allows him to swap peoples ' minds, with matters becoming more complicated when the Sixth Doctor uses the device to swap bodies with Davros in an attempt to subvert the Daleks ' plans from the inside.
# If the remainder is 2, swap 1 and 3 in odd list and move 5 to the end ( i. e. 3, 1, 7, 5 )
Freenet assumes that the Darknet ( a subset of the global social network ) is a small-world network, and nodes constantly attempt to swap locations ( using the Metropolis – Hastings algorithm ) in order to minimize their distance to their neighbors.
Often fanzine editors (" faneds ") would simply swap issues with each other, not worrying too much about matching trade for trade, somewhat like being on one another's friends list.
On February 10, 1962, Powers was exchanged, along with American student Frederic Pryor, in a well-publicized spy swap at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, Germany.
* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

quelled and rebellion
The rebellion was quelled by Jahangir's forces in 1626 and Khurram was forced to submit unconditionally.
* January 28 – The Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt breaks out against the oppressive nobility ; the revolt is quelled violently by February 15 ; Matija Gubec, leader of the rebellion, is publicly executed in Zagreb.
* The First Servile War ends when Publius Rupilius quelled the rebellion.
* A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades, this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by the Catalans.
Zhang Lu's rebellion, in modern northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, was not quelled until 215 CE.
The last Autonomist rebellion in Buenos Aires was quelled in 1880, leading to the federalization of Buenos Aires city and the stabilization of the Argentine State and government through the National Autonomist Party
Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.
The rebellion was quelled by the prince in 1117 and the mutinous nobleman was blinded as punishment.
In the process Nikephoros had quelled a Venetian rebellion in 807, but suffered extensive losses to the Franks.
Thus in the Gigantomachy, the Moirai and Heracles, having joined the Olympians, defeated the Giants and quelled the rebellion, confirming their reign over the earth, sea, and heaven, and confining the Giants into Tartarus.
Hajjaj, after years of serious fighting, quelled religious disturbances, including the rebellion launched by Salih ibn Musarrih and continued after Salih's death by Shabib.
Lt. Col. José María Pinedo quelled the rebellion and took charge as governor.
Following the defeat of the Austrian Army on the Bavarian front, Napoleon dispatched Charles Lefebvre to Tyrol, and by May 19 Innsbruck had been seized again and the rebellion seemed quelled.
In 1808 Travancore witnessed an armed rebellion against the British under the leadership of Velu Thampi Dalawa, the Prime Minister of Travancore, but was successfully quelled with the help of the British.
The rebellion itself had lasted until March 1939, when it was finally quelled by British troops.
In the years to follow, the Gods and Earths gained a varied reputation, from being known as outstanding members of and contributors to their communities who at one time quelled a potential rebellion when Martin Luther King was assassinated, to being called an unruly and confused group of African-American teenage thugs and even categorized as a gang.
* 1417 – Uesugi's rebellion quelled by Mochiuji.
After Chen Xi's rebellion was quelled, Gaozu heard rumours that Peng Yue was plotting against him too, and he had Peng arrested and stripped off his titles.
Within a month upon taking up office, Sun Jian had quelled the rebellion.
Although the rebellion was soon quelled, it led to the flourishing of many regional armies under the control of de facto warlords.
In 1823, he quelled the slave rebellion in Demerara, and two years later bought himself a major's rank.
St Leger retained his office under Edward VI, and again effectively quelled attempts at rebellion by the O ' Conors and O ' Byrnes.
At the time of Humayun's death in January 1556, Hemu had just quelled a rebellion in Bengal, killing the Bengal ruler Muhammad Shah in the war.
The Roman governor of Gaul, Carrinas, successfully quelled the rebellion and the territory of the Menapii was subsequently absorbed into the Roman province of Gallia Belgica.

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