"Instead, it is an odd combination of caution, brazenness and political trifling, " writes Mr Mehta.

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And the brazenness of the firm's bribe-paying points to a rotten corporate culture pervasive across Germany at the time.

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But in fighting for business, Goldman never reached the lows of brazenness of, say, Salomon Brothers in the 1980s.

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The brutality and brazenness of this attack has horrified the British.

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The brazenness of the schemes is breathtaking, the squalor enraging.

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Law enforcement analysts say they believe those behind the attacks had been monitoring and following the two prosecutors, given the locations of the attacks and the brazenness of killing the men where they were most comfortable.

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Yet the brazenness with which employees on various Barclays trading floors colluded, both with one another and with traders from other banks, suggests that this sort of behaviour was, if not widespread, at least widely tolerated.

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