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<text id=90TT0756>
<title>
Mar. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Wall Street
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 61
Business Notes
WALL STREET
Rich, Yes, but Never Arrogant
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<body>
<p> Invite 140 former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert to
appear on TV and you get a gripe-athon, right? Actually, it was
more like the I Love Drexel show. On Donahue last week, dozens
of mostly out-of-work Drexelites praised their bankrupt former
employer and blamed its fall on everyone but themselves.
</p>
<p> Topping their hit list was Rudolph Giuliani, the former U.S.
Attorney who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in
1989. "We are here because Rudy Giuliani decided to make it his
project to gain votes...by going after Drexel," argued one
ex-staffer. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, who used to head
the investment house Dillon Read, was accused of a "vendetta"
in not ordering a bailout for Drexel. Said a former employee:
"Drexel took a lot of business from them [Dillon Read]."
</p>
<p> "But weren't you in some very tenuous financial positions?"
asked host Phil Donahue. "And weren't you arrogant?" Naw, said
several. "We just made too much money too quickly."
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