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    stocks


    1. · Discount Stocks: Co


    2. I’ve been promising myself a plant for the kitchen table for a while now, but the local supermarket only stocks flowering plants which don’t appeal to me


    3. How would they know it was me? Might they not think that the guards had cottoned-on to them and were playing a joke? Were they even now expecting the doors to slam open and the night air to be filled with the dull thud of fists and boots and wooden stocks?


    4. There were waiting suppliers, stuck stocks and unattended


    5. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired


    6. When the stocks of many rich merchants are turned into the same trade, their mutual competition naturally tends to lower its profit; and when there is a like increase of stock in all the different trades carried on in the same society, the same competition must produce the same effect in them all


    7. The great stocks employed in every branch of trade, and the number of rich competitors, generally reduce the rate of profit in the former below what it is in the latter


    8. In a thriving town, the people who have great stocks to employ, frequently cannot get the number of workmen they want, and therefore bid against one another, in order to get as many as they can, which raises the wages of labour, and lowers the profits of stock


    9. All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks


    10. The extent of the market, by giving employment to greater stocks, diminishes apparent profit;

    11. ‘And for that they put you in the stocks? That seems


    12. stocks accumulated in them come in time to be so great, that it can no longer be employed


    13. All of these precautions had been implemented in order to prevent roving gangs of outsiders draining the meager stocks of the village


    14. The prof gave them free access to the abbey stocks of food and alcohol


    15. “Put him in the stocks Grandpa, that’s where the fool belongs


    16. If there are two merchants, one in London and the other in Edinburgh, who employ equal stocks


    17. Merchants brought in stocks from Cyrenaica and Egypt, but only the rich could afford to eat bread now


    18. More does, perhaps, in Great Britain than in any other country, though even there the great stocks which are in some places employed in farming, have generally been acquired by fanning, the trade, perhaps, in which, of all others, stock is commonly acquired most slowly


    19. Sometimes they have been introduced in the manner above mentioned, by the violent operation, if one may say so, of the stocks of particular merchants and undertakers, who established them in imitation of some foreign manufactures of the same kind


    20. But as all the different merchants, who joined their stocks in order to fit out those licensed vessels, would find it for their interest to act in concert, the trade which was carried on in this manner would necessarily be conducted very nearly upon the same principles as that of an exclusive company

    21. On top of that they were all becoming acutely aware of how their food stocks were dropping


    22. Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of


    23. Both their annuity and trading stocks had, by this time, been reduced more than two millions each, by several different payments from government ; so that this fourth amounted only to £3,662,784:8:6


    24. In the first twelve voyages which they fitted out for India, they appear to have traded as a regulated company, with separate stocks, though only in the general ships of the company


    25. A few private traders, whose subscriptions amounted only to seven thousand two hundred pounds, insisted upon the privilege of trading separately upon their own stocks, and at their own risks


    26. But those who, in order to make family settlements, and to provide for remote futurity, buy into the public stocks, would not care to purchase into one of which the value was continually diminishing ; and such people make a very considerable proportion, both of the proprietors and purchasers of stock


    27. Investors bought shares of mutual funds rather than stocks in individual companies and trusted in savvy managers to buy into companies whose stock would go up


    28. I did know that what money in stocks that she had bought during her thirty one years with AT&T


    29. I‘m sure her daughter was well taken care of with Vangie‘s stocks in AT&T


    30. A savvy investor is seldom carried away by high P/E (Price/Earnings) ratios occasioned by frenzied speculation, overvalued stocks and lower than average earnings

    31. He planted it with choice grape stocks


    32. Yuembe’s men used the AKs stocks like clubs; the nuns suffered


    33. This perverse socioeconomic model creates the scarcity in the middle of the abundance, for instance, the world hunger in the middle of the abundance of produced foods; the lack of income in the middle of the abundance of available capital, the lack of products or services in the middle of the abundance of wastes or idle stocks, among others


    34. Those monetary masses act in an independent way, according to the double actuation of the Virtual Coin, without being inflationary and without there to be speculation with prices or stocks


    35. With this, products and services have the warranty of the free circulation in the market, without anybody to have the definitive possession or to do stocks improperly


    36. a) Entry of the money physical (paper money, stocks,


    37. You know, the Puritans used to place people in stocks and display them in the public marketplace for the sake of humiliation


    38. 27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet


    39. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths


    40. fool goes to the correction of the stocks, until the dart strikes through his liver like the bird hastens towards the snare and he does not

    41. Still, buying stocks wouldn’t secure his place on the board


    42. whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks


    43. 2 Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by


    44. 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought out Jeremiah out of the stocks; Then said Jeremiah


    45. man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks


    46. Career choices like investing in real estate (such as a real estate developer, or commercial or residential investor), owning intellectual property rights (patents for inventions, licensing and even copyrights), being a bestselling author, investing in stocks or notes or bonds or being a successful business franchise owner are all ways to earn about a half a million dollars or more and that’s about the amount needed for Americans to earn if they don’t want to struggle from paycheck to paycheck but have enough to save enough and to really thrive financially


    47. people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have


    48. 21 And this was an occasion to deceive the world, for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe to stones and stocks the


    49. The stocks eligible for options will generally be those which


    50. Sell your stocks in door hinges!











































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    Synonyms for "stocks"

    stocks assets credit bonds account

    "stocks" definitions

    a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction


    a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod


    a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked