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Lemming

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Lemming
An investor who follows the crowd without doing sufficient (or any) research on his/her investments. This almost inevitably leads to significant losses. The term has a negative connotation because a lemming (the animal) has a reputation for following his pack off of a cliff.


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This is the fiscal minefield, the bewildering disarray, the 'sure it'll be fine, give it a go' model southern clubs want Linfield and Glentoran to leap, lemming like, into in the not-so-distant future?
Olivier Gilg and academy professor Ilkka Hanski from the University of Helsinki have teamed up with Benoit Sittler, a researcher from the University of Freiburg, and studied the waning of the previously cyclical population dynamics of the collared lemming in Greenland.
BRITISH Airways workers will use live lemmings to protest at the firm's costcutting plans outside what promises to be a stormy annual meeting tomorrow.
 
 
 
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