As well as the obvious financial benefits, the merger will allow us some breathing room with regards to R&D.

“Ahoy, mateys!” The chorus came from all sides, and he fought the urge to snicker. She nudged him with her elbow, and he looked down to find her eyes twinkling. “Hope you brushed up on your pirate lingo. The desk is over there. I gotta go use the little wench′s room.” He watched her go with a grin and nearly laughed again when he saw the signs on the bathroom doors. Wenches and Mateys. Good God.

Dita Von Teese: I like to call myself a glambassador. I believe in glamour and sensuality and using these tools in everyday life, not just to put on a show for men.

The dual space of a Banach space X is the vector space of continuous linear functions X→ℝ, which are called functionals. Similar notation is used for duality pairing between the Banach space X and its dual space X': ⟨u,v⟩ is the result of applying the functional u∈X' to v∈X: ⟨u,v⟩=u(v) explicitly uses the fact that u is a function X→ℝ.