the exigencies requiring snap decisions that traders on the stock exchange face every day

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The board declared financial exigency in the face of the 41% cut. Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The only finalist for the UW System's top job is a white man, and critics say his credentials and vision for the future are lackluster," 11 June 2020

But collection by the very hospitals that are treating coronavirus patients brings the health and economic exigencies of the moment into especially stark relief. Alec Macgillis, ProPublica, "One Thing the Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped: Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection," 28 Apr. 2020

In its exigency and sometimes gruesome specificity, Mostly Dead Things mirrors the work of its protagonist, Jessa-Lynn Morton, a taxidermist who must run the family business after her father dies by suicide. The Atlantic, "The 15 Best Books of 2019," 24 Dec. 2019

The exigencies of Manhattan real estate and development are evidently undeterred by the crisis. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "The Coronavirus Crisis Reveals New York at Its Best and Worst," 23 Mar. 2020

Financial exigency is an extreme and uncommon step taken by universities in a financial crisis. Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, "University of Alaska regents cancel declaration of ‘financial exigency’," 21 Aug. 2019

Trump’s ongoing influence campaign has been widely treated as another egregious example of the president’s wanton disregard for long-standing norms—in this case, the protection of monetary policy from the exigencies of electoral politics. Christopher W. Shaw, Harper's Magazine, "The Money Question," 30 Mar. 2020

Senate traditionalists such as Mitch McConnell and Roy Blunt have thus far proven resistant, given their hesitance to open broader questions about changing the rules, but they should reconsider given the exigencies of the situation. Dan Mclaughlin, National Review, "It’s Time to Let Congress Vote Remotely," 23 Mar. 2020

In addition, their professional specialties come with idiosyncratic exigencies. Kickers often have one leg that is bigger than the other, Ms. Hanks said. Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, "Even NASCAR Drivers Need a Stylist," 8 Jan. 2020

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