To start, there's Mike, an aloof but experienced financial type — he's used to managing big budgets as a chief financial officer (of the Student Union, that is).
In concealing the existence of the other, financial type of disruption, this techno-centric framing offers us a rather shallow account of what is happening to us and why.
Narrator also networks with photographer Mark Sadan, home-repair man Ben Klein, Bob Pinkus from the Vegetarian Association of America, composer W. Gregory Nissen, Fernando McMullin, a "financial type," Curt Rayvis, who runs Squeaky Cleaners, and Dorothy Palmer, who runs a talent agency with a large computer.
(Some historians trace Britain's trouble with real engineering, as well as the financial type, to the empire too, arguing that protected trade inside it coddled British industry and left it uncompetitive).The most obvious domestic legacy, of course, is in immigration.
Since the auctions are of the many-winner financial type, a knockout system, as in the stamp bidding ring, is unlikely.Having received a set of bids for different goods, at various prices and quantities, the auctioneer in Mr Klemperer's set-up then conducts a proxy auction on bidders' behalf to see who should get what, and what the price should be.
Martin: skillful financial type.
And quietly, the city's financial types are trying to do just that.
Some financial types, especially those at the top of the heap, are similarly enthusiastic.
From what I recall, the place was thick with bankers and other financial types.
Up and down Wall Street, financial types are grumbling that their industry's highest highflyers are getting their pay capped.
My fellow 'healees' were an assorted bunch of burnt-out, high-flying, financial types, entrepreneurs and a smattering of Americans.
