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Black

Informal; describing a financial statement that ends with a positive assessment. For example, if a company produces a profit for a given period of time, it is said to be "in the black." The term comes from the color of ink used for such statements. See also: Red.

black

Of or relating to the profitability of a firm or the operations of a firm. The term derives from the color of ink used to enter a profit figure on a financial statement. Compare red.

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Blacker joins Gareth Davies, Kieran Hardy and Jonathan Evans in the scrum-half pool at the Scarlets.

Scarlets bolster squad with trio of new signings

He told the sentencing hearing that Blacker was apologetic for what he's done.

Drink-driver had son, 10, in car with him

Michael Blacker leaving North Tyneside magistrates court, North Shields

Dad caught drink driving with his son, 10, in the car; Michael Blacker has been banned from the roads, but could be driving again as soon as next May

But opening the case for the prosecution at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, Chloe Fordham told the court that evidence suggested that Mr Blacker's issues with mobility were "nothing that came close" to what he suggested.

Ex-lawyer who could barely walk 'pictured on model rail train' COURT TOLD FORMER SOLICITOR 'MADE FALSE BENEFIT CLAIMS'

Housed in a trailer outside the Alamodome in San Antonio, with cables running underground to deliver the final edits to Turner Broadcasting's truck, Blacker's team--including Google data scientists and engineers, agency partners like Eleven and a sports analyst--used Google software to crunch the numbers on the first half of play.

Courtney Blacker

Since then, Sandra 'Blacker and her son, Ziggy, 19, have been bringing up Crystal's children, Deago and Ameira, in a home that is far too small.

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Mr Blacker, from Rochdale, Gtr Manchester - who claimed he inherited his peerage from his father in Ireland - could not be reached for comment.

HARRY ROTTER DOBBIED IN TO THE COPS OVER MEDAL MUGGLE; His medical gong's a fake, claims St John boss

Michael Ford, the driver of the train, said he saw Mr Blacker walk down to the tracks as his train was approaching the platform.

Train death dad-of-two had debts of pounds 28,000

Fisher (who became chairman of the Eugenics Society's family allowances subcommittee) Darwin conceded that the Society needed to take a stance on the issue, which it did in 1926, although many continued to see family allowances as a dysgenic scheme (Soloway, 1990: 298; Blacker to Gun, 12 June 1933).

To what extent was the relationship between feminists and the eugenics movement a 'marriage of convenience' in the interwar years?

Blacker then contrived a dreadful miss as he spooned the ball into the park from three yards out with an empty goal in front of him.

Cables pulled back as they concede late equaliser

More could have been said about the differences between the two versions of the prophecies, which are greater than Blacker indicates in the introduction (pp.