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...went to Salomon Bros., becoming a partner in nine months. His choice of firms was significant. Salomon Bros, is not an old-school-tie house but a pressure-cooker meritocracy in which only the ability to make money counts. In particular, Salomon risks millions of its own money buying and reselling bonds and stocks for its own account. Simon was eventually put in charge of Government-and municipal-bond trading. He did well enough to earn a six-figure salary plus a big share in Salomon's profits. His present net worth is estimated to be about...
...lush seriousness of his prose, Lowry was quite aware of the ridiculous, troublesome figure he cut for most of his 47 years. A touch of buffoonery even creeps into Under the Volcano, that hellish pressure cooker of a novel that was his only important work...
...ground-chewing effort by Tom Winn put quarterback Kubacki in fine field position for a TD aerial. Kubacki complied with a 10-yard spiral to halfback Reid Daumon, leaving coach O'Brien with his go for broke position. O'Brien, who admits, "We were in a pressure cooker," chose the two-point option that climaxed the successful effort...
...finger-lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now number 3,500. The pizza, according to a Gallup Organization poll, is the No. 1 favorite snack of 21-to-34-year-olds. (Any of those foods many contain additives, too, but they have not yet been in the Nader pressure cooker...
...announce his starter until game time, a tradition he established last year, and there is virtually no way of pinning down who will get the nod. Crone, Stoeckel and Guerra have an advantage in varsity experience, but Restic would not flinch at throwing a sophomore (Holt) into the pressure cooker as last year's Dartmouth start by Stoeckel proves Holt showed well in the Brown scrimmage completing 8 of 10 passes and as Restic is quick to point out, the sophomore has the most experience in the coache's offensive system. Holt started all six games for the Yardling squad...