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...Clawing back gains absent fraud--and where there are no preset clawback agreements--is another matter. The concept is foreign to most of Wall Street. Hedge funds generally have only what you might call "claw forwards": high-water-mark provisions that prevent managers from pocketing performance fees after a loss until they've made up that loss to their investors. Investment banks, meanwhile, have for decades paid out bonuses on the basis of one year's profits and worried about the consequences later...
...capable of deep love and profound rage almost simultaneously. They are powerfully connected to the people close to them and terrified by the possibility of losing them - yet attack those people so unexpectedly that they often ensure the very abandonment they fear. When they want to hold, they claw instead. Many therapists have no clue how to treat borderlines. And yet diagnosis of the condition appears to be on the rise...
...Xiaoping's position as China's leader and laid the groundwork for a generation of economic reform. In 1978, Deng was the great survivor. He had been a party member for nearly 60 years, and had been purged more often than a top model's digestive tract, only to claw his way back to the leadership. China was desperate. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were a fresh memory. As Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin this year, in 1978 "the country was in a backward state ... with the economy...
...troops when it went to overthrow the Taliban government, relied instead on the northern warlords and their militias. In a grave mistake that was to haunt Afghanistan for years to come, many of those leaders were given prominent positions when the new Afghan government was formed, enabling them to claw back credibility that had been lost due to their abhorrent behavior in the civil war. Samimi laments the lost opportunity for Afghanistan to start over. "Right after the collapse of the Taliban, the government had the opportunity to go after these commanders because they were scared and weak," she says...
Threes by Holland and Lowe, however, gave BU a 41-34 lead going into the locker room, and Harvard proved unable to claw its way back...