[Ads-l] "deplorabe" = beleagured stock

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

Headline at Barrons.com: 

Wells Fargo: No Longer a Deplorable

http://tinyurl.com/y9y8aobg 

My sense is that this use of the word is entirely parasitic on HRC’s, but I may be wrong.

Geoff


Adjunct Full Professor
School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720
ph. 510-643-3894
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/
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