Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Working at nights, he can spend days at home. "I run around, shopping or cleaning the house. I drive my kids to school and pick them up. Sometimes I prepare dinner. My wife doesn't like to cook steak; she overcooks it." On his days off, Billy likes to watch wrestling on TV with Crystal. "On Saturday at 9 a.m., there's a wrestling preview on [channel] 38. My favorite is The Rock. He's the people's champion, they say. But my daughter likes Stone Cold Steve Austin. I don't know why she likes...
...hardwood floors are the clincher. Looking around Yadin Shemmer's apartment, I can handle the fax machine in the kitchen, the antique-looking toy cars, the huge red leather couch in the living room. But hardwood floors? In a spacious two-bedroom apartment, in a swanky building on the Upper West Side? A building with a doorman? For a 24-year...
...order in to their desks--the world of the two-martini lunch is long gone. But twice a week, the company caters a meal for all its employees. And it's a good one: salmon filets, roasted asparagus, rice and potatoes, with cheesecake for dessert. The staff gathers around black tables in the conference room, and for half an hour the office feels like a dining hall. Cliques form in different corners--secretaries over here, a small group of partners towards the back, and two big tables of analysts and associates. The stock talk continues: "Did you see Zamba? Good...
...Hanging out around the table, the analysts look like a bunch of fraternity brothers in dress shirts. Of the dozen recent college graduates who work in the New York office, only two are women. With almost all males, the office has a rambunctious feel--Shemmer slaps his friends on the back and calls them "boys"; another recruit is a "stud." Several of the analysts' cubicles sport posters of scantily clad women, advertisements for a Web site called Bikini.com. "You get a bunch of 22, 23-year old alpha males, you're going to get a certain environment," an analyst tells...
...lunch tables disperse quickly--everyone's too busy to hang around--and Shemmer heads back to the same Web research he did this morning. I wander around the office to see what the other analysts do. I spend time with one employee who specializes in writing fairness opinions--reports outlining for shareholders whether they're getting a fair deal in a merger. The number crunching and boilerplate legal writing seem dull, but it's still a high-wire act--shareholders who feel cheated can sue Broadview. "It's a pretty amazing responsibility for someone my age," the analyst says...