But it was all delivered in the militaristic speak of "light, medium and heavy ordnance" - a language familiar to the general but not easily understood by others - especially those listening in at Ulster Unionist headquarters.

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Oh, AIG is a bit more of a problem, but forbidding them from issuing things like credit default swaps to avoid regulation by the insurance regulators and the insurance regulators forbidding them from insuring financial transactions that are not easily understood and rated would go a long way.

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An advantage of the resource-based view is its clear analytical framework, where human capital is understood as having four important characteristics: it is valuable, scarce, not easily imitated, and lacks substitutability.

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