Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?

begin  Daniel Cassidy's  quote:

| I have. The saying has always been 'nine tenths' around here,
| although I've no idea where or how it originated. It's pretty much
| irrelevant anyway; with "nine tenths" it's pretty close to fact,
| with "nine parts" it fails to say anything at all.

http://www.tdctrade.com/econforum/hkma/hkma021001.htm

it's not that it said nothing at all so much as it does not say what 
you would like it to say.

the phrase, as to the parts of the law, has been around since at least 
the 18th century, when colley cibber had it as "eleven points of the 
law."
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