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3 | ...is a nickname based on how the company treats (and protects) its brokers. |
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...is a nickname based on how the company treats (and protects) its brokers. Explanation: "The Merrill Lynch brokerage firm was affectionately called “Mother Merrill” by its employees. “Mother” Merrill Lynch trained its brokers and treated them well, frowning on any broker who moved to a rival firm. “Mother Merrill” is cited in print from at least 1972; in the 1990s, the nickname “Mother Merrill” became widely used in the financial press." See http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/moth... |
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mother merrill nickname... Explanation: These links may offer more of a lead concerning the origin and development of the term for you. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2009-08-28 22:19:04 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Apologies to you both; I did not read Derek's post carefully enough to see that I have both requoted his exerpt, and posted his link. The other link is interesting, though, I think. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/moth... Reference: http://www.catholicity.com/mccloskey/merrill.html |
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