To his great shock, he discovered an infection of virulent greed destroying a venerable culture of excellence, a culture that attracted him to Goldman with all the exuberance of his youthful talent and ambition.
They are a very interesting mix that no one predicted a year ago: Internet-only newcomers, toy outlets, venerable retailers and a cost-cutting megastore chain.
Five years ago a venerable American institution, Riggs Bank (where Abe Lincoln once banked), collapsed after a Senate inquiry revealed that Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Obiang Nguema, the long-serving president of Equatorial Guinea, had stashed millions in private accounts, with no proper questions asked.
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It's snazzy stuff for a venerable, white-shoe firm so taciturn that it omits the Goldman name on its headquarters tower a few blocks south of Wall Street.
Samsonite is a venerable brand, but its last memorable advertisements--back when air travel was special--showed a gorilla jumping on its sturdy suitcases.
But textile workers at a venerable Egyptian spinning mill recently did something that was considered unthinkable.
While sorry to see a venerable British company bought by an overseas competitor, the attitude is: that's business.
Outside, the throaty call of a rooster rings out across the farmyard, and a venerable tractor grumbles noisily by.
After all, the venerable DJIA is a mere 16 points away from the multi-year high it set on Tuesday.
As it all unfolds, a venerable media brand will grow that much stronger.
In Dell, Hawkins and Cates see a venerable company smartly shifting toward becoming the IBM for small and medium-sized businesses.
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The federal agency that has been sent to the rescue is a venerable legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
The same half-defence can be made of the Anti-Defamation League, a venerable Jewish organisation created to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.
In Philadelphia, it makes sense to buy an old house: The city's housing stock is venerable, with a median year of construction of 1925.
And indeed, those venerable gentlemen have a lot to teach us.
Finding moral meanings in formal musical patterns has a venerable history.
When the members of the G8 convene for their June 6 summit at Heiligendamm, a venerable German resort on the Baltic, they first will have to transit an 8-mile fence topped with razor wire.
Donald Trelford, a former editor of the Observer, a venerable Sunday newspaper that Mr Rowland bought and used as his publicity sheet, wrote this week that he introduced the tycoon to Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess champion.
Carrying on a venerable tradition of filmic archaeologists and adventurists such as Indiana Jones, the new Tintin film by Steven Spielberg, entitled "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, " mixes the story-lines of several of Herge's books and follows Tintin and friends hunting for centuries-old treasure.
In this context, then, it is interesting to watch the evolution of Panasonic, the heritor brand of Matsushita, a venerable name that never quite reached the status of zaibatsu or keiretsu (another type of Japanese conglomerate), but still narrowly missed being broken up in the industrial reforms that took place in post-World War II Japan.
Bad judgment and poor management are not fraud, even when they lead to the demise of a once venerable financial institution.
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Over 10 months, the venerable Minnesota company began a program with the aid of Opera Solutions Inc. of New York, an eight-year-old analytics firm.
It's been well over a year since Cyberlink released a new version of its venerable PowerDVD software, but now version 13 has arrived sporting a shiny new look, 4K support and a fresh media upconverting trick.
Several companies are convinced that airships are ripe for a comeback, including the venerable Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik, whose new craft recently won clearance to carry passengers, a dozen at a time.
From keeping the waning iPod classic in the lineup to leaving the still-potent iPod touch untouched save for a blanching and price reduction, the venerable digital media player line seemed all but ignored at a time of year when Apple once primed the holiday pump for MP3 players.
NPR's Jim Zarroli tells Renee Montagne that Madoff was a respected, venerable figure on Wall Street.
With the club comes ownership of venerable Wrigley Field, plus a 25% stake in the Comcast SportsNet cable station.
This venerable organization is animated by a universal mission: to repair our world by finding ways to make it stronger, healthier and more diverse.
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Pernetti, a veteran of the venerable Golden Door spa, keeps careful tabs on what he dishes out.
New York teems with venerable, historic restaurants and boasts a fair share of the country's most distinguished steakhouses, yet Keens Steakhouse stands above the rest.
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