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For anyone who wishes they never heard the phrase &#39;too big to fail&#39;, check out the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&#39;s dictionary of recessionary terms.  And get this -- it&#39;s satirical!  (It&#39;s nicknamed The Devil&#39;s Dictionary, after the 1906 Ambrose Bierce publication -- also known as The Cynic&#39;s Word Book -- which similarly explained the &quot;political and cultural language of the day.&quot;)  &lt;p&gt;Case in point, the new definition of &#39;credit-rating firms&#39;: &quot;Firms that do scant rating of people with scant credit.&quot;  Start memorizing, people!  (And if you exhibit flashes of mental brilliance now and then, send us your own definitions via the comments section.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;--Posted by Todd Obolsky, Vault Staff Writer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/TODDO13/folders/Jing/media/3877dd97-7723-4b8e-b4be-a1b8d28bdc7a/2009-09-15_1043.png&quot; width=&quot;365&quot; height=&quot;233&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;

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