Obie leaned against the beaded-board wall.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Propped up against one wall is a dry-erase board.

NEWYORKER: Net Impact

During his tenure, as before, the NYSE's board was stuffed with Wall Street big-hitters.

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This configuration gives it all wheel drive and also allows the ECU to either send power to or retrieve power from (in the form of regeneration) either motor to recharge the on-board battery pack -- which can also be juiced up by plugging into the wall.

ENGADGET

Board member and ex-entrepreneur Tim Wall agrees.

FORBES

For his pay package to make sense, he must be compared to the CEOs of top Wall Street firms whose CEOS serve on the NYSE board--executives like Henry Paulson , CEO of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), William Harrison of J.

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Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg News and a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, looks at the Depression through pro-market eyes.

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He also recognises that Wall Street firms have different kinds of business model, and that across-the-board rules may be unhelpful.

ECONOMIST: Recriminations against Wall Street

Moreover, executives from Wall Street firms will no longer be allowed to sit on the NYSE board's six-member compensation committee.

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Instead, with other profitable segments of the company growing, Wall Street insiders speculated he might agitate for a break-up, or at least pressure the board to consider such a move.

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In August 2011 the board brought in Mark McLaughlin, an executive at security firm Verisign, to be its Wall Street-friendly CEO.

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