Word: client
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...manager, twice failing his brokers exam. And as a trader with LaSalle Street Securities, a Chicago firm, he proved too timid for the job--a surgeon afraid of sharp instruments. "I used to call him in the morning and say, 'Marty, make the trade!'" recalls Ted Bitter, a former client of Frankel's. "I would call him back in the afternoon, and he wouldn't have done it." His own fund, the Frankel Fund, attracted a total of three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed a prodigious inability to distinguish his own money...
...Frankel learned a lesson from his failed funds, it was that clients insist on getting their money back. He needed to find clients who wouldn't be so demanding. Even better, if he could somehow become both client and money manager, he could create a truly sustainable scam. That's when the insurance companies entered the picture...
Well, as Maynard's therapist asked his beleaguered client: "Where is the lesson in all this?" First of all, if you covet your privacy, never commit anything to writing. If you absolutely must express something to a lover, wife or husband, I recommend the Gambino-family-style "walk and talk." Stroll outside with your interlocutor, covering your mouth with your hand as you converse. Make your conversation as vague as possible, and pepper it with inaudible remarks and gross expletives. Here is an example of a man using this technique to break up with his girlfriend...
...process," says Baumohl. "It's a huge political problem within the company." But chairman David H. Komansky didn't sound that worried -- or sympathetic. The brokers "will still do very well," he said, "so long as they are willing to provide value-added service to their client." In the age of the Internet, it's no fun to be the middleman...
...executed. Ocalan's comments confirm suggestions that he is bargaining for his life in court rather than facing a trial in the sense that any of Turkey's NATO allies might use the term. Ocalan's lawyers complain that they've had no unfettered access to their client, and human rights organizations have questioned the credentials of a court in which one of the judges is a military appointee. Although the charges against Ocalan carry a mandatory death penalty, the Turkish government has discretion over whether to actually carry out the execution. "They may decide he is more useful...