It was less a case of keeping up with the Joneses than trying to compete with the oligarchs and sheiks who were changing the face of soccer and its high finances.
In the past the organization has requested $176 million for the agency, the amount the Endowment was given at its highest financing, in 1992.
It was seen as the weakest link in central and Eastern Europe, because of its relatively high financing needs, but this has been reduced over the last couple of years and is now much better," he told Forbes.com.
London has become the world's largest carbon market mainly thanks to its dominance of high finance.
In my case, it was high finance.
Forget about your murder, Jake; it's high finance.
For the last decade, Bloomberg has barely bothered to venture outside the realm of high finance; its news was produced to help subscribers to its terminals make more money for themselves.
About 18 months later, I followed my managing director to FleetBoston Robertson Stephens, to help found its high-yield finance group.
And to be fair, modern financial companies are difficult to figure out, Enron, with its high-flying finance, more so than most.
It is a critique from the left, suggesting that the road to economic ruin originated in New Labour's infatuation with the City and its reluctance to regulate high finance tightly.
