The shopkeepers loathe them because, as the manager of Fashionable Male, a clothes shop, puts it, they lack a "shopping agenda".
Those Merry Roosters had a job to do the show, though, because the manager of the theatre, Mr Redsocks, would have none of it.
One participant mentioned that they were lucky because the manager of the hospital was very cooperative with them and prepared everything for them: "We were lucky because I raised this issue to the attention of the manager of the maternity hospital and she was very cooperative and allocated one entire unit of the hospital for teaching.
Because the portfolio manager of a closed-end does not have to worry about redemptions, he can put 100% of the assets to work in long-term bonds.
That will be a challenge, because even the general manager of the Yankees is not convinced.
This story was convincing because the managers of charitable institutions have donors who seek to remain anonymous.
One of their number, Chris Casper, played his last game at 24 because of injury and was manager of Bury at 30.
"We've never been closed during winter because of weather," says Brian Long, manager of the Orvis range at Sanadona in Millbrook, New York.
But, because we're managers of capital, everything we do is suspect.
Now, Mr Salmon wants to make the point that defined-benefit retirement plans can earn better returns than defined-contribution plans, because managers of the big plans can play on the same field as the rich, well-connected investors who get to put money in Facebook.
