Given the size of Goldman's historic bonus pools, the value of these shares would certainly run to tens of millions of pounds, and probably to hundreds of millions of pounds, so the tax saving would not be trivial - perhaps double digit millions of pounds (Goldman won't confirm the quantum).

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Although quantum doesn't mean "big", I think that's what the Romney team meant.

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In the end, Jabil hit its original profit and revenue forecasts by simply using the plant to supply other manufacturers, something Quantum couldn't have done had it owned the plant itself.

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Mr. Rogers, who started Quantum Fund with financier George Soros, doesn't know Mandarin and had never lived in Asia.

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And not just in the hard information sciences, either. (We won't attempt to cover biotech in this column.) The quantum era so fetchingly described by Feynman has loosened our thinking in other fields, too.

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