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When stock exchanges introduced four-character and five-character tickers, as opposed to three characters, the options market had to invent its own set of three characters to represent an underlying stock.
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"Long Day's Journey" is, after all, a five-character, one-set play, and even though four of the characters are members of a theatrical family, their intramural sniping is easier to take — and to sympathize with — when presented on the unexaggerated scale enabled by the Touchstone Theatre and encouraged by John Langs, the director of this production.
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The current system, involving five-character symbols known as OPRA codes, has caused numerous problems since it was developed.
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"Putting It Together" is a five-character rumination on unhappy marriages, missed connections, the frailty of love-the troubled, wary heart that is a classic Sondheim show.
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Players listen to coded, five-character call signs, combinations of letters, symbols and numbers that identify individual license holders.
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Tallifero Lawrence Sibert (born June 4, 1877, in Bloomington, Indiana; died February 20, 1917, in Los Angeles) toured the vaudeville circuit in a five-character act.
The Annotated "Casey Jones" Robert Hunter 2005
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No casting was announced for the five-character play, which will mark the Broadway debut of the playwright Lisa D'Amour, a well-known downtown writer and artist.
NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2011
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The five-character play opened Thursday night Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street, part of Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 initiative devoted to showcasing emerging talent.
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The play was Christopher's distillation to a five-character story that could deliver the texture and ethos of the times; these characters had the required charisma.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Regina Weinreich 2011
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Instead, Playwrights will put on a new production of the five-character comedy, which zooms in on the adjacent backyards of two recovering addicts and their anxious middle-class neighbors.
NYT > Home Page By FELICIA R. LEE 2011
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