Using ocean data collected by diving floats, U.S. climate scientists released a study Thursday that they said provides the '.........' that ties manmade greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.

There's a name for people who are able to identify the customer-grabbing, revenue-generating power in their particular job and maximize it at every possible opportunity — they're called ..........

For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion request for military operations and economic reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a ......... fund of $9.3 billion which Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases.

Recent versions of shareholder rights plans have contained what has been called ......... provision, which provides that only incumbent directors or their designated successors, so-called 'Continuing Directors', can redeem the rights.

As a general guideline, an order may be cancelled if it is more than 30% ......... the market, depending upon where it has been routed to for execution, and you may receive a warning message when attempting to place a trade that fails a price reasonability check.

When I bought my seat on the exchange, if someone gave me an order, I took it to an order clerk, who called it down to the floor; the clerk wrote out the order ticket, gave it to a ......... dollar broker who had to be a member of the NYSE, who took it to the specialist's post, bought or sold the stock, and repeated the whole process back.

If you are ......... to a given public securities issue, you will not be buying any shares through the public offering.

......... follow trends, tips and gurus; they sometimes put on bull horns or a bearskin and try to swagger; you recognize them by their pitiful bleating when the market becomes volatile.

The failures of well known ......... retailers like Garden.com, Pets.com and discount retailer Value America have experts talking about the value of multi-channel retailing.

Recently, the SEC's Enforcement Division has signaled a change in philosophy from a reactive approach (i.e. investigations of individuals or companies were initiated after evidence of a possible violation) to '.........' — pursuing investigations where it is not clear that a securities violation has occurred.