How much does a Pfizer executive have to say in order to get Wall Street analysts talking about the odds that the company will split itself in two?

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According to the official, a break in the case came when detectives reviewing video surveillance from commercial establishments in the area spotted the suspect talking with street vendors along a row near 50th Street and Seventh Avenue, a block from the subway station where Mr. Han was killed.

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All of this was entirely predictable since February when we warned of a sharp slowdown in the economy, while Wall Street was talking about a good recovery.

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And as we were talking, I looked outside and saw some young boys playing in a vacant lot across the street.

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Then Marketing went off and researched the target account by talking to Wall Street and industry analysts, suppliers, employees in stores, and reporters.

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Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.

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Wall Street may also be talking up its e-bond efforts in order to ward off the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main markets regulator.

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