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Taussig

American  
[tou-sig] / ˈtaʊ sɪg /

noun

  1. Frank William, 1859–1940, U.S. economist.


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In 2021, RSA cut a deal with Reed Taussig, the head of its fraud prevention software business Outseer, to spin it off as an independent company.

From Reuters • Jan. 18, 2023

“People tend to see wheelchairs as interchangeable,” like chairs at a table, Taussig said, but for many users they are more like a pacemaker, specially designed to “support them in whatever ways their bodies need.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

We live in constant suspension of disbelief, what the American anthropologist Michael Taussig has called “this silly if not desperate place between the real and the really made-up.”

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2019

“It’s this crime that the anthropologist Michael Taussig said is a public secret, and we only look at it long enough to horrify us, but never to do anything about,” Trinch said.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2018

Then he went to Germany, where he had a remarkably thorough schooling 342 under Moscheles, Reinecke, Richter, Paul, Taussig, Kullak, and others.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

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