He came to Bernstein in 2001, the youngest analyst at the time, and two years later joined the tech strategy group run by the estimable Vadim Zlotnikov, captain of his high school math team in Brooklyn and an electrical engineering double-degree-holder from MIT.

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The returns on higher education are rising: the median earnings in 2000 of Americans with a bachelor's degree or higher were about double those of high-school leavers.

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And for a high school degree with no college, it is double digits -- 11-12 percent.

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Or held a debate to gauge, in terms of degree of difficulty, which most fluently speaks double-talk?

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That the double whammy of age (bias) and no advanced degree are non-issues?

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In repositioning their assets, the M100 took a marginally bullish though heavily hedged stance, pouring cash into both the iShares Lehman 10-20 Year Treasury Bond and, to a lesser degree, into Ultra Industrials ProShares, and ETF that moves at a rate double the amount of change in the Dow Jones U.S. Industrials index.

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He did double duty around the house when I went back to school to get my master's degree, watched nervously as I took a ride on a Harley and silently cringed when I insisted on going parasailing.

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