Though that announcement had been hedged with the usual caveats, there was guarded optimism that MDP 301 would have similar results.
Hunts may have survived the ban – the Countryside Alliance says numbers have held up over the past 10 years and 45,000 people still regularly follow hunts – but they are ever more hedged in.
Their base, Combat Outpost Rahman Khel, is a couple of acres of gravel, mustard-colored barracks, a gym tent, a medical hut and a fluttering American flag, hedged by tall, gray Hesco blast walls.
He's hedged his bets on the one in the center, in blue.
He estimates that about 40% of the fuel used by the world's airlines is still hedged at $75-85 75-85rel.
He has hedged himself into a position where either a continued economic recovery or a renewed slump might well work to his advantage.
Unfortunately, the ones that had hedged their positions had bet that the price of gold would go only one way down.So it was with Ashanti.
Back then, Japanese firms hedged their China risk with a "China-plus-one" strategy, implying that they would find an extra Asian supply hub, such as Thailand.
And by the 18th century, when the revolution really ought to have been over, armillary spheres were still being produced with the Ptolemaic and Copernican heavens side by side, as if the makers had hedged their bets.Mr Gribbin knows this, but doesn't consider his readers smart enough to understand it.
Mr Obama has indicated his preference for a comprehensive approach, and has managed to squeeze out of Mr Netanyahu a statement approving the establishment of a Palestinian state (albeit hedged around with the condition that the Palestinians must recognise the Jewish essence of the Israeli state).
According to a study by Greenwich Associates, a consultancy, big American, European and Asian firms hedged 55% of their exposure to fuels last year, up from 45% the year before.
