Sentences with phrase «waving slips of paper»

Traders on the floor of a stock exchange, waving slips of paper in the air and yelling like lunatics, were already being phased out in the 1980s, as firms adopted more efficient electronic trading platforms.

Not exact matches

The GPS records described in the Science Express paper show that within the zone that experienced the greatest amount of slip during the earthquake — a region south of the sources of high - frequency waves and closer to Kathmandu — the onset of slip on the fault was actually very smooth.
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