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While the amount Hall would have gotten paid is unusual even for Wall Street, how he got paid is not. Hall had a pay package with Citigroup that guaranteed him a percentage of the profits of his group. Recruiter George Stein of Commodity Talent says it's normal for traders to get paid as a percentage of their division's profits. Most contracts guaranteed traders around 9% to 11% of their group's profits, before compensation. What's unusual about Hall is that he reportedly receives as much as 20% of his unit's profits, which sets...
...sport. As he describes it, the only people who regularly fill the stands are tourists. "You get all these drunken tourists who come and yell their heads off as an animal is brutally killed. And they're only there because they think they're in a normal part of Spain, and that's what you do in Spain." (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina...
...coach and players agreed that the shots were worse than normal...
Indian farmers had been praying for rain after the weakest monsoon season in 40 years had left their crops stricken by drought. But when the rains finally came, forceful and incessant at six times their normal levels, they left behind the worst floods southern India had seen in more than a century...
...explanation for this new find, according to Bird, lies in the geometry of electrically charged water drops. While normal, uncharged water drops have round curves, charged ones have parabolic curves. So while normal drops repel or coalesce upon contact depending on the size of the drop and speed of collision, the unusual shape of charged drops causes them to come together briefly then separate...