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Word: centimillion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salomon in 1978. According to Liar's Poker, a 1989 best seller by Michael Lewis that described Salomon as a sort of financial Animal House, Gutfreund exhorted traders to come to work each morning "ready to bite the ass off a bear." When the traders were not executing centimillion-dollar deals, they delighted in such pranks as dumping garbage on one another's desks and replacing the contents of a male colleague's suitcase with lingerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Swaggering into Trouble | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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