That said, senior bankers tell me they think it is a bit over the top.
He is getting on a bit now and is one of the senior guys out there and I think Stoner might be a fly in the ointment for him.
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"People who in good times want to keep it private, probably are just copping out a little bit, " said Don Harp, senior minister at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta.
The rate of attrition in the middle ranks has slowed a bit in recent years, but the most senior jobs remain almost exclusively male.
"Since the financial crisis, programs have focused not on business skills, but on modern thinking, ethics and leadership, which can be a bit squishy, " says Rob Hums, senior analyst of learning and development at State Farm Insurance Co.
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"Every little bit counts, " says Jennifer Aiosa, a senior scientist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Md.
He told the committee of senior Commons backbenchers that the MoD did seem to have "had a bit of a problem" with leaks - adding that this was "worrying when it is the department responsible for security".
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"Consumers finally realised about the tax increase so they pulled back a bit on their spending during the holiday season, " said Sam Bullard, senior economist at Wells Fargo.
For employers, writing a corporate biography for a newly hired executive with a brief tenure elsewhere requires a "a bit of finesse, " says Howard Polskin, a New York media consultant who has held senior communication roles at two Fortune 500 companies.
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"I'm a bit speechless about the negligence some member states have been showing, " said Jos Delbeke, a senior Commission official for the environment, adding that it was too early to say what the scale of the thefts may be.
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