(n.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequences That transaction, which produced a quick profit of $700,000 (£420,000), is said to have kicked off a pattern of insider trading that yielded $20m for Galleon over three years.
(2) "I have decided that it is now in the best interest of our investors and employees to conduct an orderly wind down of Galleon's funds while we explore various alternatives for our business," wrote Rajaratnam.
(3) Backed by a breezy 2km-long promenade, the calm water is perfect for swimming, while sunken galleons are a huge draw for scuba divers.
(4) In an impassioned speech to Galleon employees yesterday evening, Rajaratnam, who is out on $100m bail, insisted he was innocent.
(5) In common with most other hedge funds, Galleon's customers are only allowed to withdraw money at pre-set intervals and must give 45 days' notice if they want to exit.
(6) From Walter Raleigh robbing Spanish galleons through the Empire to the rise of the turbo-charged gambling banks, 400 years of history tells us that deep in the DNA of the British there is a propeller forcing us to forsake planning in favour of dodging and weaving to make our way in the world.
(7) The speed and scope of redemptions has left Galleon's traders hurrying to liquidate investments.
(8) There's also an ancient artisan who makes to-scale, seaworthy replicas of galleons and clippers using original shipbuilding techniques - he receives commissions from VIP clients, and did a ship for George Bush.
(9) He is accused of making at least $20m of profit at his US fund, Galleon Group, through illegal tips from inside sources about companies including IBM, Intel, Google and the Hilton hotel chain.
(10) Although the alleged proceeds from these tips were relatively small in the context of Galleon's multibillion-dollar operation, they have prompted suspicions about the forces behind the firm's stellar performance – Galleon's flagship Diversified fund has claimed an annual return of more than 23% to investors.
(11) Goel is accused of passing on tips about an investment by Intel in an internet service provider, Clearwire, allowing Galleon to trade shares at a quick $579,000 profit.
(12) First, there is the ill-feeling passed down from the Spanish colonisers, who saw the British first pillage their galleons and then gradually usurp their empire - this explains the still prevalent Argentine habit of calling the English piratas, as per the man who called into a Buenos Aires radio station to lament Beckham's injury because 'now those pirates will have an excuse when they lose'.
(13) Between the fishing boats and white yachts bobs the quaint tourist restaurant Le Marseillois, afloat on a piratical wooden galleon.
(14) A replica of a Spanish galleon bobs awkwardly in a man-made pond.
(15) Many of them are said to be updating their CVs with a view to finding new jobs and two of Galleon's leading brokers, Barclays and Bank of America, have told Galleon they will no longer work with the firm.
(16) Just days after Rajaratnam was arrested as he prepared to take a flight from New York to London on Friday, clients have told Manhattan-based Galleon they want to take out more than $1bn (£612m) of the firm's $3.7bn of assets under management.
(17) Staff at Galleon have spent the past few days preparing their CVs and contacting headhunters in the hope of securing employment elsewhere.
(18) At its peak in the early years of the decade, Galleon was one of the world's 10 largest hedge funds, at one point managing more than $7bn.
(19) When protesters stormed Yanukovych’s compound they found gold-plated golf clubs, a petting zoo and a replica of a Spanish galleon moored in a manmade lake.
(20) Rajaratnam established Galleon in 1996 after a successful career as an analyst at a US stockbroker, Needham & Co. His firm's funds have produced a remarkable annual return of 22% and have amassed some $6bn under management.
Gallon
Definition:
(n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(2) Individual males held in gallon-sized containers inseminated as many as 10 females.
(3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(4) Already the price of petrol has risen to at least $3.50 a gallon (94 cents a litre) – just over double Sunday's morning price of about $1.70 a gallon (45 cents a litre).
(5) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
(6) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(7) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
(8) They replied that an average day’s drilling uses about 1,000 gallons of diesel.
(9) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(10) "And just as cars will go further on a gallon of gas, our economy will go further on a barrel of oil."
(11) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US , a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita (or nearly 600 US gallons).
(12) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(13) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(14) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US, a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita."
(15) The helicopters can haul up to 2,000 gallons of water.
(16) The nationwide average price of a gallon of regular is now $2.02 (£1.36), down 58 cents from this time last year, according to auto club AAA, and expected to fall further.
(17) The response of microorganisms to an accidental spillage of 55,000 gallons of leaded gasoline into an Arctic freshwater lake was studied.
(18) They could have taken a thousand gallons of water and just intercepted the fire before it got to my place.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Belles stands on a scorched hill overlooking his concrete dome house.
(19) A 14-year-old male drank two glasses of milk from a gallon inoculated with 21 vials of live virus vaccine intended to immunize 1000 baby chicks against Newcastle Disease.
(20) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.