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Greed: Stracher's point of view in the novel is that of a fresh-out-of-law-school associate at the Wall Street firm of Crowley and Cavanaugh where he is paid $80,000 each year but is pressured to earn even more...
...social studies concentrator at Harvard, Barrios went on to graduate from Georgetown Law School in 1995. He has since worked as a housing attorney for the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow, and was named 1997 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for his work representing immigrants...
...bottom twice as fast as shipyards could build them. The U.S. Maritime Commission, desperately seeking an outfit to build 60 cargo ships for its allies, sent word to the Bechtel construction company that it would be welcome to bid on half the job. Stephen Bechtel, head of the family firm, had no experience in shipbuilding. But he insisted on getting the order for all 60. "Size can work to your advantage if you think big," he said. "You just recognize it and move the decimal point over...
...picked up some of these nuggets from a wonderfully dated biography by Margaret Ingels (Father of Air Conditioning; 1952). The introduction to this respectful book was written by a Chicago banker, Cloud Wampler, who helped bail out Carrier's firm during the Depression and later became its CEO. Wampler wrote, "The stage was set for my unforgettable first meeting with 'The Chief.' I had already been told that Dr. Carrier was a genius and that his talents lay in the field of science and invention rather than in operation and finance. All the same I wasn't prepared for what...
...General Electric Co. is eight years old, the product of the merger of the Edison General Electric Co.-Thomas Edison's firm and the Thomson-Houston Co. It is a forced marriage: Edison was an inventing genius but no match for J.P. Morgan in finance. Edison would quit soon after...