Their idea was that they would sow spores of penicillin-producing fungus in their clothes, and then carry their work literally on their backs to safer shores.

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"If passing on the dividend is what it takes to get people off their backs, then they might have to do it, " said Colin Morton, a fund manager at Rensburg Fund Management and BP shareholder.

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How did we forget that we used to just make fun of the newest wave of immigrants and then prospered on the backs of their hard work?

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And then it hit me: the asset allocators, those exact folks who seem to be turning their backs on VC today, are the ones who bow at the altar of CAPM, the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

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