She graduated fromHarvardLaw School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chiplawfirm Sidley &Austinin Chicago, where she specialized in marketing andintellectual property law.
The idea of a bluechipfirm issuing at 1 percent, as IBM did for its three-year notes last summer, is now obsolete when inflation over the last three months exceeds 5 percent on an annualized basis.