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...that made employees think long and hard about risk. They were partnerships, and partners couldn't cash in until they'd been on the job for decades. This amounted to an implicit clawback system, with the other partners doing the clawing. The partnership model began to break down in 1970, when upstart Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette sold shares to the public. Merrill Lynch followed a year later, and in 1999 Goldman Sachs was the last big firm to go public. Perhaps that was all a mistake. "It's a radically regressive idea, but I honestly think Lehman Brothers would have been...
...there is a caveat. Can someone with such a high-intensity game last long enough to break all the records? Tennis players' longevity varies depending on their style of play. As points and matches lengthen, careers often shorten. Nadal and his coterie of physical trainers know that the flip side of his heavy topspin is that it forces him to engage in bruising rallies. His muscle-bound physique - which Nadal says is down to genes rather than weight-lifting - adds an extra burden: the explosive forces those muscles generate put his body under increased strain...
...event. Ask his trainer, Rafael Maymo, what parts of Nadal's body are under strain when he plays, and he answers: "Shoulder, feet, legs and back. Oh wait, that's every part." Sampras is even more direct: [Nadal] puts so much effort into each point that eventually something will break...
...walking away from mortgages they can afford to pay, just because everyone else is doing it and responsibility seems like a sucker's game. Retailers report that gun sales are up, because the Democrats are back and crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal and of course Bernie Madoff of the $50 billion swindle, because absent any effective sanction, we're all vigilantes...
...this, however, the Crimson must be able to move the ball up the court, striking a balance between the fast-break game and penetration in the lane...