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In the lingo of newsies, my Times copy desk colleagues inform me, it means "overkill".
All three of Adoboli's desk colleagues admitted they knew about the secret account, to varying extents, and his two bosses over the period showed an apparently relaxed attitude to daily trading maximums being exceeded.
He said this "profit pool" served two purposes: to help offset mounting costs that were a drain on the desk's profits, and to give him and his desk colleagues confidence to trade in the knowledge that they had a "cash buffer" to fall back on should they make losses.
With the Kavanaugh hearings — and possibly a collective nervous breakdown — approaching like a Category 4 hurricane, I humbly offer a media user's guide to the week ahead, with a little help from my media desk colleagues Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison.
"As the Guardian is well-established as the newspaper of choice for the overwhelming majority of Labour and Liberal MPs – and influential as such - why did it choose to withhold its letter-writers from this crucial debate in its Thursday and Friday editions?" I talked to letters desk colleagues about the selection process and what editors try to achieve in each day's selection.
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Solace, presumably, to those still at their desk as colleagues are turned out on the street.Still, panicky investors have pushed the shares of every major bank to their lowest level in years as they have watched falling stockmarkets, the thinnest of pickings for both mergers and acquisitions and the underwriting of new shares, and now the growing mass of litigation surrounding investment banks.
Then one day he was found slumped over his desk; his colleagues assumed he was asleep.
Her primary duties include ensuring members and guest feel welcomed, managing the front desk, assisting colleagues with various administrative tasks, and processing membership applications.
Stewart gained a physical newsroom, an all-important desk and colleagues in close proximity, while her work was cross-published on the American's site and in print.
Back at her desk, a colleague reassured her.
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