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91Net Short — A condition in which an investor has more short positions than long positions in a given asset, market, portfolio or trading strategy. Investors who are net short will benefit when the price of the underlying asset decreases. Sometimes advanced… …
92Novel & Short Story Writer's Market — (NSSWM) is an annual resource guide for fiction writers that compiles hundreds of listings for book publishers, magazines literary agents, writing contests, and conferences. NSSWM is published by Writer s Digest Books and usually hits bookstores… …
93Rashōmon (short story) — Rashōmon ( ja. 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū .The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku . Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa… …
94Very Short Introductions — The Very Short Introductions series (or VSI series) is a book series published by the Oxford University Press publishing house since 1998. Each book in the series offers a concise yet cogent introduction to a particular subject. Written by… …
95The Portrait (short story) — The Portrait is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol. It is the story of a young artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is one of Gogols’ most demonic of tales, hinting at …
96The Man Upstairs (short story) — The Man Upstairs is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the March 1910 issue of the Strand , and in the United States in the same month s issue of Cosmopolitan , with the setting relocated to New York.… …
97Parson's Pleasure (short story) — Parson s Pleasure is a short story written by Roald Dahl, first published in 1959. It is included in Dahl s 1960 short story collection Kiss Kiss . Plot summaryMr Cyril Boggis is an antique dealer in Chelsea, London. He does not have a large shop …
98Long/Short Equity — A hedge fund strategy that involves buying certain stocks long and selling others short. There usually isn t a restriction on the country that the stocks trade in either. This type of hedge fund basically has free reign to buy or sell what it… …
99Real Estate Short Sale — Any sale of real estate that generates proceeds that are less than the amount owed on the property. A real estate short sale occurs when the lender and borrower decide that selling the property and absorbing a moderate loss is preferable to… …
100The Fox (short story) — The Fox is a short story by D. H. Lawrence published in 1923.Set in the Berkshire district of England during World War I, The Fox, like many of D. H. Lawrence’s other major works, treats the psychological relationships of three protagonists in a… …
