Here are 10 bits of well-worn Wall Street defenses that many must wish they had questioned this year.
A bit of, well, scariness.
There's a little bit of, 'Well, it's not going to happen to me.' " Duerson was successful in private food-related business after he retired, but he had encountered financial and family problems in recent years.
Still a bit of a goulash, but more focused than the original package that included a little bit of, well, everything.
Mara, 31, wowed in a white cutout Givenchy fall 2011 couture dress (here it is on the runway!) and a sleek brunette bowl cut, reminding us a little bit of, well, "Ghost -era Demi Moore.
That being said, I spend the past several years writing a book called Love Wins which released last week and, from what I'm told, has generated a fair bit of, well, controversy.
All of these things can give your room a little bit of, well, YOU! Rearrange!
Friend and beacon, she had an amazing ability to cut directly to the chase, almost always with a bit of well-timed humor.
Nick Hart, the owner of Spencer Hart, notes that a one-button jacket adds a crucial bit of well-constructed distinction to the blandeur of the dressed-down scene.
"My touchstone," he declared once the shortlist was settled, "was that I was looking for some Burgessian fizz and crackle and a bit of well-displayed erudition.
They are also, as William Boyd commented while judging the 2012 entries, looking for "some Burgessian fizz and crackle and a bit of well-displayed erudition".
