Steve Black has let me know that he would like to leave the firm early next year.

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In 1969, in an interview with the New York Times, he stated that his biggest accomplishment was that "people looked at me like a man, not a black man".

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Whether you are a devotee of the Black Swan Theory or merely another hard-boiled cynic like me, you may now be counted among those who place little comfort in years of accumulated stock market statistics.

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But to me and my colleagues, those black roofs look like a vast untapped market.

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His booth looks like a department store on Black Friday, but he concedes to give me a minute.

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He, like Plouffe, made me think of the focussed men in white shirts and narrow black ties who, in the nineteen-sixties, ran the space program.

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