For years big shot Wall Street money managers like Blackstone Group have raised money from pension funds to make leveraged buyout investments.
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Then-Chairman Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was in December 1996, with the bulk of the dot-com bubble to follow, but the Fed didn't even hike reserve requirements to send a warning shot across Wall Street's bow.
Although the scenes with the stars were filmed here, a stunt double actually jumped off the wall (the water scenes were shot in Hollywood).
Stevenson blazed a free-kick from 25 yards and the defensive wall simply disintegrated, allowing the shot to dip through and deceive Zaluska.
Pope Benedict insisted on beginning his emotional visit by walking alone under the infamous sign and saying a prayer in front of the reconstruction of the execution wall where Nazis lined up and shot thousands of prisoners.
Ibrahmovic struck a powerful shot into the English defensive wall and then sliced his follow-up, but the ball squirted through to Mellberg, whose scuffed effort dropped over the line, despite an attempted clearance by Glen Johnson.
With the clock running down, Braga won a free kick and Matheus thundered a shot past a threadbare defensive wall and the ball dipped under the crossbar to leave an embarrassed Zaluska flapping at thin air.
Along with Tom Wolfe, who wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities, Lewis shot and mounted the whole of Wall Street--when it was big, swinging Wall Street--between book covers.
Dutchman Sneidjer scored the only goal of the game in the sixth minute when his low-free-kick deceived goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev after his defensive wall jumped in unison -- allowing the shot to go underneath them.
"The cargo plane ... shot the runway, broke through a wall and (that) resulted in the death of 10 people who were traveling on a commercial vehicle, " Deputy Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor said.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic hit the set-piece against the wall before his miscued volley fell to Mellberg, whose shot was parried by Joe Hart only to bounce off Glen Johnson and over the line.
Away from Wall Street there is ample evidence that investors hunger for a straight shot.
It was a decent chance but Kevin Thomson's effort failed to make it past a wall of white jerseys after a tense build-up to the shot.
That is a spectacular long-shot bet, but heavy if more modest bets against the Wall Street investment bank have been piling on for days in the options world.
In another case, I took a shot of a bush about 8 feet in front of a fieldstone wall.
Ledesma's shot from the subsequent free-kick made its way around the wall but Allan McGregor was well positioned to tame it.
For more than two years federal prosecutors have tried to bring high level prosecutions against big shot money men to satisfy the public thirst for criminal accountability on Wall Street following the financial crisis.
Woods hooked his tee shot deep into the trees, where he was surrounded by a thick wall of fans.
When Benjani slid his shot home on 21 minutes, the writing appeared to be on the wall for the visitors.
Activists are distributing fliers showing the faces of others shot by New York police officers since 1999, and members of Occupy Wall Street are working in the neighborhood, organizing people against stop-and-frisk and planning a Sunday march.
Wall had a chance for an eagle at the last which would have put him a shot ahead of Broadhurst, but he left the long-range putt a foot short.
So while the number of people seriously injured in gun-related violent incidents has actually gone up almost 50 percent in the past decade, you are more likely to survive a gun shot today than would have been the case even a few years ago, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
The Pakistani intelligence official guiding me through the compound said there were no AK-47 bullets found at the scene and he therefore surmised that the courier had been taken by surprise and was shot before he could reach for his AK-47, which was recovered leaning against the wall of the Kuwaitis' bedroom.
Boyle, who returned to the lineup for Game 2 on Saturday following a knee injury, carried the puck from the right-wing wall, cut into the circle, shifted the puck to both sides of his stick, and flipped a shot over a crouched Green and past Holtby at 12:50 for what was technically an even-strength goal.
Members of the law-school class of 2011 had little better than a 50-50 shot at landing a job as a lawyer within nine months of receiving their degree, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis last year.
Navarro hit a solo homer just over the basket at the wall in left-center in the second to break a 1-all tie and added a two-run shot down the left-field line off John Danks (0-1) in the fourth, with both drives coming from the right side.
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