Word: shaping
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...success: continually tweaking the firm's game to fit the times, the markets, the opportunities and Goldman's talent--managing partners like the brilliant and charming seventh-grade dropout from Brooklyn, Sidney Weinberg (a.k.a. "Mr. Wall Street"); the worldly, turbocharged Gus Levy; and John Whitehead, whose prescience helped shape the firm into a master of the financial universe in the 1980s. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, now a flummoxed bureaucrat in the hot seat, also ran the show after forcing out Jon Corzine...
...They won’t explain things in the courtroom,” said Feldman, who Esquire magazine named one of the 75 great individuals to shape the next 100 years. “They’ll just talk in code...
...You’ve had violence influence your work before. Being from Ireland, how did the conflict there shape...
...think they’re all unique. We have the beginnings of structure, of institution, which would allow the divisions to play out politically. But what is being played out in the institution is quite a dangerous energy on the streets. What you want, if possible, is some institutional shape that allows dangerous voltage to enter and work and drive the institution. It doesn’t mean that sectarianism or opposition has gone away in Northern Ireland; it means that there’s a kind of future-seeking possibility in the institution...
...It’s different in that you have the given, a shape to work with. You don’t have to conjure the material ‘thingness’ of the poem. It’s more like a jigsaw puzzle than anything else. At the same time, all the definitions of translation that I really like is that it’s writing by proxy. You get the satisfaction of finishing something without the penalty of having to start...