The term slush fund was originally a nautical term: the slush was the fat or grease that was obtained by boiling salted meat.

Run off Type I appears to turn slush a pink tinge hence the term pink snow.

Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.

A 1992 Central Intelligence Agency report " acknowledged that the FARC had become increasingly involved in drugs through their ' taxing ' of the trade in areas under their geographical control and that in some cases the insurgents protected trafficking infrastructure to further fund their insurgency ," but also described the relationship between the FARC and the drug traffickers as one " characterized by both cooperation and friction " and concluded that " we do not believe that the drug industry Colombia would be substantially disrupted in the short term by attacks against guerrillas.

In late 2005 HCT secured £ 28. 4 million from the Learning and Skills Council to fund a new Learning Village, which would secure Further Education for the long term in a county that has no university.

Enhanced indexing is a catch-all term referring to improvements to index fund management that emphasize performance, possibly using active management.

In 2002, Harris ran against Sarasota Attorney Jan Schneider for the congressional district vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Dan Miller, winning by 10 percentage points in this solidly Republican district-and a victory helped with one of the biggest first term campaign fund raising efforts in the history of this district and substantial support from the Bush family.

Oxford theoretical physicist David Deutsch has adopted the economic term fungible to describe the physical nature of quantum particles and universes within the quantum multiverse, where, by virtue of being identical in all respects, different particles chaotically divide or combine as a result of physical interactions from a common fungible fund in superposition.

" A physical clamp of this type is also used to refer to an obscure investment banking term ; notably " fund clamps.

The term is being increasingly used for known terrorist organizations that engage in drug trafficking activity to fund their operations and gain recruits and expertise.

While there is no legal definition of mutual fund, the term is most commonly applied only to those collective investment vehicles that are regulated, available to the general public and open-ended in nature.

The term mutual fund is less widely used outside of the United States.

While the term " mutual fund " may refer to all three types of registered investment companies, it is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the open-end type.

Newly reelected, Rockefeller proposed tax increases to fund additional reforms and his second term began on January 14, 1969.

The term Operational due diligence is often used to describe the due diligence process used by hedge fund investors, particularly where this incorporates, or focuses largely on, operational risks.

An early use of the term " war bond " was for the $ 11m raised by the US Congress in an Act of 14 March 1812, to fund the War of 1812, but this was not aimed at the general public.

Roberts opted against a second term after voters refused to pass a sales tax to fund the Oregon Health Plan and she was forced to break her campaign promise not to cut spending.

" Metz used the term frequently thereafter ; a few months later he was using it with a hyphen, saying that a fund " holds computer peripheral ... business equipment, and high-technology stocks.

This claim, made by a Temasek spokesman in 2008, was subsequently disputed by the Singapore Ministry of Finance's governance and investment director, who asserted that a broad definition of the term " sovereign wealth fund " could include " all state-owned investment vehicles, regardless of their funding ".

In 2004, Jackson was vocal in her criticism of Deckers Outdoor Corporation's campaign to enforce trademarks on the generic term " ugg boot ", and helped to establish a successful fighting fund to challenge their trademarks.

This money collected by the dealer from the consumer is put in a " reserve " fund for the length and / or term of the service contract.

The term " Beiyang ", meaning literally " Northern Ocean ", refers to the customs revenues collected in North China, which were used first to fund the Beiyang Fleet and later the Beiyang Army.

From 1941 until 1945, he was Governor of Rhode Island, reorganizing the juvenile court system while sponsoring a workers ' compensation fund and a labor relations board, but he resigned in the middle of his third term to accept appointment as Solicitor General of the United States ( 1945 – 46 ).

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.