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1. My first impulse was to try and move him onto his mattress, but as I tried to lever his battered body towards the mattress he simply groaned again, moved his hand to cup mine, and then wagged a finger under my nose
2. "No pins," the redhead said, "see these plastic pinch blocks? Just pull a rope thru here and it stays, better than you can belay it, til you pull back this lever here
3. To great applause, the hangman placed the noose around the soldier's neck and made ready to pull the lever that would send the soldier to his death
4. Duncan felt a small quiver beneath his seat as the pilot began turning a lever and he rightly guessed that the pilot was lowering the landing gear
5. The trick was to use his ability at a lever that scored yet
6. With their feet just wider than shoulder width apart, they raised the lever poles of the diggers, straightening their arms above their heads and in a single motion: both lowered their hands and with straight backs, lowered themselves by dropping into a very controlled near squat, almost a horse stance
7. Then immediately spread the lever poles to grasp the captured soil, returned to the initial posture---but now with their hands wide apart instead of together---pivoted on one foot, disgorged the captured soil, pivoted back on the same foot and repeated the process
8. Tom then set the choke lever fully open and used the crank handle to
9. lever, he could hear a series of cries, audible even over the roar of the
10. ” He held one of the tools, his arms extended to full length in front of him with a hand on each of the tools lever handles
11. “I’ve got it on four but here, put it on eight to one reduction if you want,” he showed her the smaller lever that did that, “you could handle a tugboat in a storm on eight to one
12. The other lever seemed to do nothing
13. On the other side, beneath the arched entry way into the keep, the boulder dwarf looked around, scratching his head of gray hair when suddenly he must have caught sight of Nathalia and her armored pursuers for without pondering the situation a moment longer, he wrapped one of his meaty hands around a lever and thrust it to the ground
14. ‘Well, the Dominicans have a powerful lever on the
15. The hallway stopped with a wall, and a lever on the floor
16. She pulled a whining Mercer within the circle and very close to her and the lever
17. Chris flattened himself against the hull beside the hatch and gingerly took hold of the lever
18. Chris twisted the lever beside the door through ninety degrees clockwise and then pulled it out from the wall
19. She pulled open the small panel beside the hatch and swung the lever concealed inside
20. A green light lit up beside the lever and the hatch slowly wound itself open
21. He tried with as much force as he was able, but the inside lever appeared locked
22. Worryingly there was no sound from behind the door so Chris tore his gloves off, pulled the manual release lever beside the door and the two of them set about sliding it open by hand
23. The hatch opened by simply pushing down a lever; doing so slowly, still not sure of the measure of his own strength
24. As he was about to slide-pull the activation lever on the field generator he heard a voice through his comm
25. His arm froze on the lever
26. ‘We won’t harm her … unless you pull that lever
27. Besides, I don’t rate my chances of survival once I pull that lever
28. He pulled the lever
29. It was like having a leech stuck to your lips and in the end I had to lever her off just to catch my breath
30. The door had a simple mechanical lever, which she pushed down
31. Charges were inserted all around the massive trunk, the cable was attached, and when everyone had withdrawn to a safe distance, the lever was pressed
32. One pulled a lever and the portcullis clanged into place
33. Maldynado sat with his hand on the lever that would pour the wet concrete
34. In the cab, Maldynado yanked the lever
35. Not certain what the lever controlled, Amaranthe grabbed the hot metal rail and leaned as far past the edge of the catwalk as she could
36. If Larocka pulled that lever, the floodgate would open, and Sespian would be seared alive
37. Larocka turned toward the lever and started to put weight on it
38. The lever started downward in its track
39. Frantically trying to dismount the trembling machine, I swung my legs sideways, catching my trouser cuff on the clutch lever, which engaged the drive
40. verse, it’s done with this lever
41. when you change from one speed to another, move the lever
42. I grabbed the lever with both hands and shifted it to STOP
43. It was the red lever among a cluster of others that controlled the winches
44. Truman used it to stretch his head sideways and extended his tongue to point at the lever
45. “The red lever! Wait for my signal!” He spoke the words rapidly in Spanish, then clenched his teeth knowing what was to come
46. He acted without hesitation: “Push the red lever all the way back, NOW!” he shouted in Spanish
47. You have no real lever against me, apart from certain time constraints that I must keep in mind
48. by the unskilled manipulator of the single lever of a vast
49. What was even more refreshing was the water the obelisk produced, a small recess in its base readily appearing as if a lever had been pulled, with an unnerving lack of sound
50. Ding, ding, the tram driver pulled a lever overhead, and the tram rolled ahead on old steel tracks that had carried passengers down the centre of the road for over one hundred years
1. Carolyn levered herself to her feet and walked around the table to her mother, sitting in her lap
2. Grab anything! Her hair! Her hair! Now, try again,” he mentally remonstrated as he hooked a foot up over the edge and levered himself onto the raft with his arm
3. His head levered to gaze ahead, his eyes meeting like a collision with the brick
4. I found a sturdy-looking vine and tossed it down to her, then wrapped it around the trunk of a tree and levered her up out of the hole
5. He levered up the first sleeper, the one nearest to the door, and pushed it to one side
6. remembered it and, getting hold of the end, he levered it out of the window
7. Her hand groped at a stick and then levered it into the crack, working
8. We assume that the levered company is making at least as much as the
9. value of a levered firm is equal to the summation of the value of an unlevered firm, the
10. The levered beta became:
11. APPENDIX: THE MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEVERED AND
12. 1) EQUATING THE LEVERED FIRM WITH THE UNLEVERED FIRM
13. situation, but the return on equity (ROE) will be different because in the levered state, the firm has to pay interest, but in the unlevered state, it does not
14. ROE(L) = Return on Equity for the Levered Firm
15. S(L) = Value of Stock of the Levered Firm
16. levered version of the company so that unlevered and levered can be equated
17. STEP 4) Determine the beta of the levered firm
18. express the levered firm in terms of the unlevered firm (steps one and two above)
19. the unlevered beta with the levered beta
20. Since the levered firm issues debt instead of stock to raise the same
21. than 1, making the levered firm’s beta always greater than the unlevered firms - by a
22. On the other hand, the levered beta technique assumes that beta is made up of a
23. unlevered firm has the same income generating capacity as the levered firm, and that the
24. The basic premise is that the value of a levered company is greater than
25. Formulating a plan on the fly, Nick quickly grabbed a deep breath, then levered himself into the narrow shaft
26. Carefully disengaging her hands from the rungs, Nick pushed Angellina to the bottom of the shaft, then levered himself around and below her
27. He changed and then bundled everything else into a green bag, levered open the door to the incinerator and placed the bag under the pile already there
28. At Anderson's flat he waited outside until the man left then he climbed up the fire escape and levered open the small sash window to the side of the back door
29. He had levered aside the window lock and slid inside
30. Monks crowded around as the stone slabs were levered up and dragged to one side
31. She watched as he levered his shoulder off the doorframe
32. Completely unaware of the noise I was making, I hammered and levered until I had it free at last
33. It was very heavy so he levered it off its shelf with great care
34. He took hold of the uppermost one and levered it about
35. Carefully inserting the handle, he levered and pulled to find that slowly, the stone moved forward
36. Challenger levered his bulky figure slowly out of his chair
37. With many buyouts thus priced and levered for only clear skies and smooth waters, a general rise in interest rates or a business downturn could be disastrous
38. She hooked her hand around the doorjamb, and as quietly as possible the sixty-year-old woman levered herself into Kathleen’s room
39. As a low-cost levered trade, consider the August 25/35 bullish Risk Reversal (45 cents)
40. Down the long elm-shadowed streets the trolley moves along, the motorman's gray-gloved hand touched gently, timelessly, to the levered controls
41. • The best long-run SRs were for front-end Treasury trades (that cannot be levered), high-turnover reversal strategies (before accounting for costs, which are substantial), short-dated credits, and active value/carry/momentum strategies
42. Levered arbitrageurs cannot remove this opportunity because of the financing rates they face
43. But any levered trader needs to take into account Treasuries’ below-LIBOR financing rates
44. If funding spreads at money markets were as wide as longer dated bond spreads, there would be no opportunity for levered traders
45. 4 and makes the proposed strategies less compelling for levered traders
46. In the mid-2000s, ex ante Sharpe ratios declined both because Treasury holders gradually became more conscious of the opportunity cost of their low-returning holdings and because more levered capital became available to pursue any remaining “arbitrage” opportunities
47. Low-volatility assets and relative value trades that have low standalone volatility when not levered are likely to be shunned by arbitrageurs, resulting in mispricings and illiquidity, but also better investment opportunities for those able to put on these trades
48. OTM puts are especially highly levered positions on the underlying index; during a period of high realized equity premium, OTM puts with large negative betas can be expected to have large negative returns
49. Low average returns on ATM straddles (consisting of long position in both an ATM call and ATM put)—roughly —15% per month—are more challenging to explain because these positions have zero equity market betas, so their returns cannot be explained by their levered directional exposure
50. , the ability of traders to finance their levered positions); and (4) financial market liquidity or ease of trading
1. Begin in the Lotus Pose once more but this time instead of levering yourself backwards on your elbows bend forward very slowly until your face is touching the floor
2. After they were up over George's head with the siding, he fetched the ladder and Harry began levering one end of each plank to within George's reach, and in that way they had soon dried in and insulated the new room
3. He began levering it gently but firmly, and found that he
4. Slowly, the legs arched, levering their
5. He slammed his other hand into his elbow, levering the gun up
6. Adrian–Moench–Shin (2010) show that aggressive levering by financial intermediaries is a sign of strong risk appetite and low prospective returns, while de-leveraging episodes signal high risk aversion and bode well for subsequent returns
7. More generally, the best trading opportunities that markets offer often involve levering up low-volatility positions
8. Hedge funds’ strategy of combining and levering up many long–short positions makes them more vulnerable to unexpected correlation spikes than most other investors
9. • Avoiding overpriced high-volatility assets gives a second edge to the “levering shortvolatility assets” approach
10. Risky leverage includes boosting leverage to offset falling risk premia or falling volatility (as in 2006–2007), or levering up illiquid or inherently risky assets, or leveraging via borrowing in ways that are more likely to need to be unwound during financial crises or amidst capital scarcity
11. Less risky leverage includes levering up low-volatility assets to improve diversification, especially when done using liquid assets and vehicles that are less likely to cause forced liquidations or to involve counterparty risk (e
12. These funds are levering their capital and buying companies right and left
13. For this edition, he writes, “In 2007, which turned out to be the peak of the last bull market, I warned that the stock market was being propped up by private equity funds levering their capital
1. Kara stared with interest at the various knobs and levers in the driver’s position
2. pull back these two levers and fire
3. That he is no longer in direct control of the levers of power is a shame, but in his time of greatness he employed a whole army of secretaries and assistants, whose sole job it was to document every fact and every detail of every case and policy so that he could remain true to his principles
4. On it were big brass knobs and levers, a few tall, cylindrical and deeply indented push buttons, and a few large meters with very thin needles that were waving slowly, but remaining in the green
5. longer in direct control of the levers of power is a shame, but in his
6. tugged on the levers which engaged the pump itself
7. England had moved automatically to operate levers and switches
8. It had a textured handle, a crystal in the other end and a couple small levers
9. One of the levers caused a small carriage to come out of the handle
10. He refers the principle of levers
11. "Levers next to the wheels
12. trolley and clicked the levers
13. Dawn glanced at her dad, watching his eyes moving among the various instruments, his big hands almost stroking the levers and controls as he guided them home
14. He saw Raul fix his eyes upon the cluster of levers, but his gaze returned to Truman with an expression of incomprehension
15. As much as he looked, Hilderich indeed could not discern any sort of controls, levers, ropes, weights, or wheels; nothing a gate could be associated with in his experience
16. He focused on his body and felt its energy; he focused on his mind and conjured an image: he was on the platform of an old steam engine with colossal levers and wheels and steam and heat and dials and the smell of hot ash and grease and thundering vibration and dials indicating temperature and pressure and speed
17. “So how are things with the Levers?”
18. the dials and levers of the plate for a satisfactory spot, he
19. There is too much money involved in thousands of grants for researchers, and multi-millions of dollars in profits for those who manipulate the levers of the “green economy” they hope to impose on the nation
20. As they grasp the levers of power, wearing the benign countenances of a Dr
21. matter, and these wires and levers and pulleys that move when we move are no more than
22. How do we protect ourselves from these people when they have the levers of the power of the state in their hands?
23. “They repeated my commands back as they moved the levers
24. They pulled those levers on you for the best of intentions, but the result was a disaster for your fledgling ambitions
25. corkscrews and levers and so on
26. Gearzon gripped the levers of his war machine, sending it forward in an attacking maneuver
27. The gnome fainted and his gloved hands fell lax at the levers
28. The systems of cranks and levers that lifted the gate were in an advanced state of disrepair
29. levers to the supports underneath
30. levers to pull and what buttons to press, but I haven't the faintest idea of what's
31. levers and the switches
32. Furthermore, there were two levers that controlled the
33. pulling of both levers
34. “We can see these levers connected to the seven stones,”
35. levers but nothing happened, “Dam,” he muttered, there’s
36. Experimenting with switches and levers, in an attempt to fly the machine was out of the question, for now
37. flight, and a chimp was trained by painful electric shocks to operate levers while in space, not levers to perform a necessary procedure of course, just levers to demonstrate a chimp could pull levers in space
38. I will now try the manual levers
39. The noblewoman was seemingly displeased by her question and motioned to one of the men, who then went to the drum and pulled the levers a number of time, tightening the chains holding Nancy and painfully stretching her body
40. entire casino floor staff as they pulled back the levers,
41. They entered the control cabin where two Warriors, their umbrella heads nearly touching the ceiling of the cockpit, were standing at a console of levers and buttons and dials
42. immediately realized that the myriads of levers and dials were duplicated
43. back and another panel with levers and a V
44. his four hands on the four levers and gently manipulated them
45. Kandras firmly gripped the four levers and flicked a hinged cover on the top
46. and a duplicate set of levers swung smoothly into view from the console
47. floor, the console and finally to the levers
48. by ‘Squelching, down the other signals using those two levers, but leave them
49. The shower had two levers, which, luckily, had markings as to their function
50. “Indeed, what Greeg?” faked Wilx and Rip, using the opportunity to smash and pull and twist and pound on any and all of the guidance levers, knobs and buttons they could in order to get the hell out of this mess
