I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience. Michael Bolton
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. John Hull
What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. Chuck Mangione