Such losses might make a great case study some day at Penn's famed Wall Street training ground, the Wharton School.

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His first financial role was as director of course development for Leo Fleur, the company responsible for Wall Street training.

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These three-to-seven month finishing schools were the Wall Street equivalent of basic training in the military.

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Kumaritashvili's sled struck the inside of the track's last turn during his sixth and final training run, sending his body into the air and over a concrete wall.

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The athlete's sled struck the inside of the track's last turn during his sixth and final training run, sending his body into the air and over a concrete wall.

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My formal economic training consisted of sleeping through Econ 101 and 20 years of hard knocks on Wall Street.

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General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said "thought and imagination" had gone into the training facility.

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