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ambulance-chase

(derogatory) To engage in ambulance chasing.

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The story's premise is that the world will run out of oil faster than we thought, as these billions of people chase their dreams of big houses and sport utility vehicles.
Structural concentration of incomes at the top is combining with easy money and a chase for yield, driving equity prices upward.
Rather than pulling their units back across the canal to chase the raiding Israelis, the Egyptian commanders believed that their forces could capture all of them by converging toward one another, thus closing the two-mile gap that Sharon had exploited.
As we know from decades of Japanese and Swiss experience, selling a low-interest-rate currency simply to chase higher US yields is often a costly mistake.
Efforts to find new revenues will chase spending cuts that in recent years have led to a decline in public-sector investment and education spending and a shift in responsibility for welfare spending from the federal to local governments.
PARIS - JPMorgan Chase has had a bad year.
SEOUL - If you chase two rabbits at once, the old saying goes, both will escape.
Then someone reminds you that JP Morgan Chase is a complex global financial institution.
And of course the credit markets know this, so they lend more cheaply to JP Morgan Chase and other megabanks than to smaller banks that really can fail.
All are aware that ground troops are necessary to end the expulsions of ethnic Albanians and chase the Serbs from Kosovo.
Apparently, Roosevelt, or his speechwriters, borrowed it from A New Deal, a book by Stuart Chase that was published in 1932 and adapted the same year into a cover story for the magazine The New Republic.
The parallel to Chase's book today is the 2012 bestseller Why Nations Fail by the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson.
Defenders of the megabanks - Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley - dismiss Warren as an avatar of left-wing populism.
Second, with low interest rates causing vast sums of money to chase so few opportunities for decent yields, it is understandable that investors have turned to government bonds, thereby driving down yields still further.
Geithner also established a tangled web of connections between the New York Fed and JPMorgan Chase, some of which linger to this day.
Bear Stearns came close to failing earlier that year, before the Federal Reserve stepped in to facilitate a purchase by JPMorgan Chase.
Because of low interest rates in the United States, major financial institutions can borrow cheaply in dollars and then chase much higher returns in the major emerging-market countries.
Funds switched out of Japan have shifted to other financial markets, with the chase for yield driving up asset prices and lowering interest rates.
WASHINGTON, DC - The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue.
This is completely obvious at JPMorgan Chase.
It is difficult to see JPMorgan Chase escaping its past anytime soon.
The pressure brought to bear on JPMorgan Chase was completely inconsequential - nothing significant will change.
That has certainly not been the recent experience at JPMorgan Chase.
And when Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Khadafi, disappointed by the pan-Arabism he advocated, turned to championing pan-Africanism, his people continued to riot to chase out black immigrants.
I will forego all that, and skip to the chase: what can we hope to see?

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