Yet because anti-trans-fat researchers have done a great job of public relations, their preferences are allowed to trump common sense and plain old goodwill toward fellow human beings.

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But despite calls for his head, Sir Martin not only hung on to his job, but negotiated himself a fat compensation package for rescuing a company he had almost killed.

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Marsh handed the job to Zurich after dunning it for a fat fee, Spitzer alleges.

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The group listened intently as one of the executives launched into an unflattering tale of how the employee had used the executive's perfectly good job offer as a bargaining chip for a fat buyback.

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In a crummy job market the incentive is to stay put and live off the fat of the government.

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Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are considered front-runners for the top job handling Facebook's trophy IPO, and the biggest chunk of a fat fee pot.

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