Word: squabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salomon Brothers, the base salary is $150,000 a year, and at other investment houses it ranges as high as $450,000, far less than the average player in baseball gets. But that's only the subsistence wage, to tide people over so they can put squab on the table and pay the housekeepers until the real money is doled out in annual bonuses. These bonuses run into seven figures, and if you've had a great year at the computer terminal, you could take home twice as much as Barry Bonds. And, as in baseball, you get paid...