In the case of the major Wall Street firms that have in-house broker dealers, an advisor at Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs ( GS) is a W-2 employee for IRS purposes, and knows from day one that the client belongs to the company.
The rooftop Insanity puts riders through 3-Gs of terror, the X-Scream is a teeter-totter suspended 866-feet above the sidewalk, and Big Shot is a 4-G vertical catapult that takes riders to 1, 081-feet above the Strip.
So, for example, a new GS-15 in the Washington D.
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Explosive bolts then blow the clamps away, and the shuttle springs upward, going in an instant from 1 G to 1.6 Gs--not much for a centrifuge-hardened pilot like Glenn, but a jolt nonetheless.
This is a lot to expect from a bunch of GS-15s. (That refers to the government pay grade in which officials earn in the low six figures.) I suppose the gamble is that giving them enough power will make them better people.
But lawyers for investors in the firm of Milberg Weiss , which have been named the lead counsel for Enron shareholders nationwide, will on April 8 add Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), Salomon Smith Barney, a unit of Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), J.
Neiderauer, a former Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) partner and senior trading executive there, is said to have a disdain for the floor-based trading model.
"This wide of a valuation range clearly raises questions, " said Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) analyst William Tanona, in a report Thursday.
Kyoto-based GS Yuasa says it has dispatched a team to Washington to help in the investigation.
The batteries in question are manufactured by Japan's GS Yuasa, under a subcontract to France-based Thales, Boeing said.
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The batteries in question are lithium batteries manufactured by Japan's GS Yuasa, under a subcontract to France-based Thales, Boeing said.
The "budget preparation specialist" designation is a job title within the GS-560 "budget analyst" series that was specifically developed to recognize the unique duties of certain analysts within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Paulson, plucked last year to lead Treasury after a successful, and lucrative, career at the helm of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), pressed through the fall to get a handle on the credit crisis, though some say not quickly enough.
Financials : GS was a great sale for us around 154 -155 and now worth a scalp look long around 137-138.
"With the yen seen weakening further, while the won is set to keep rising, Hyundai's ability to overcome worsening external factors will be put to the test this year, " said Lim Hyung-geun, a fund manager at GS Asset Management.
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We've been trying to murder a (UK-based) GS III here at Engadget, but with no luck as yet -- we can cause the malicious digits to appear in the dialer, but we can't force the stock browser to visit them as a URL, even when trying a bit of URL forwarding and QR code trickery.
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Aside from crude Rockette-based jokes, we know very little about what the GS IV is purportedly packing, but hopes of a drastic shift away from the company's plastic-heavy designs were dimmed somewhat by the "more of the same" design featured on the Note 8.0.
Things are so gloomy on Wall Street that even the mighty Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) is seen having a lukewarm quarter, barring any stealth hedging strategy that could lift it out of normalcy.
Part of the issue, as Langone sees it, is that Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ), which has a substantial stake in Archipelago and a substantial NYSE specialist operation, advised both parties to the deal.
The program will first anonymize your unique string of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs and then translate it into a one-of-a-kind melody.
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"Even at the time, these numbers seemed quite optimistic, " wrote Goldman (nyse: GS - news - people ) economist Jan Hatzius, in a note Friday.
Unlike NYSE's Archipelago deal, which was negotiated privately with the aid of only one investment bank, Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), Nasdaq was involved in a bidding process for Instinet, which is 62% owned by Reuters.
Goldman Sachs (GS) continues its fall from grace with a bigger than expected net-loss this quarter.
No problem, says Thomas Scozzafava, president of GreenShift's gs AgriFuels unit and a former Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) merchant banker.
But the secretary, who is the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), seemed to stop short of a broad and permanent fix to the way Wall Street is regulated--something others on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have demanded.
Japanese and U.S. investigators looking into the Boeing 787's battery problems shifted their attention this week from the battery-maker, GS Yuasa of Kyoto, Japan, to the manufacturer of a monitoring system.
Thain, a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) (which incidentally advised the two parties in the transaction), has been studying ways to boost electronic trading on the exchange without stepping on the toes of its floor traders.
In fact, we'd wager that most folks out there willing to shell out a few Gs on this will prefer the subdued look over the garish -- not that we don't adore the Envy 133's flashy exterior or anything.
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In a research note released Tuesday, Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) biotech analyst May-Kin Ho wrote that positive results in this study could double the number of patients eligible for the therapy to 700, 000 people.
Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.
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