Housing/financial haircut

[Ann Burlingham]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Housing/financial haircut
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> For more on the history of the financial "haircut," see William
> Safire's 2009 On Language column:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11wwln-safire-t.html
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> I provided him with cites back to 1955, which I presented in full here:
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0901B&L=ADS-L&P=R2196


Ah, thanks! I did search the ADS-L archive before writing, finding
mostly discussions of mullets (and shags).

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