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- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesWALL STREETRich, Yes, but Never Arrogant
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- Invite 140 former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert to
- appear on TV and you get a gripe-athon, right? Actually, it was
- more like the I Love Drexel show. On Donahue last week, dozens
- of mostly out-of-work Drexelites praised their bankrupt former
- employer and blamed its fall on everyone but themselves.
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- Topping their hit list was Rudolph Giuliani, the former U.S.
- Attorney who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in
- 1989. "We are here because Rudy Giuliani decided to make it his
- project to gain votes . . . by going after Drexel," argued one
- ex-staffer. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, who used to head
- the investment house Dillon Read, was accused of a "vendetta"
- in not ordering a bailout for Drexel. Said a former employee:
- "Drexel took a lot of business from them [Dillon Read]."
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- "But weren't you in some very tenuous financial positions?"
- asked host Phil Donahue. "And weren't you arrogant?" Naw, said
- several. "We just made too much money too quickly."
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