Maybe a primal thrill at getting something out of thin air explains Wall Street's infatuation with cash payouts.

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Along the back wall hangs a line of long, thin burettes filled with colored liquids.

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Perhaps, in a time of abundant liquidity, they thought that all the slicing and dicing done by the mortgage industry and its Wall Street allies had spread the risk sufficiently thin that a genuine productivity payoff in finance was at hand and no great upset was in store.

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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.

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