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- noun Alternative spelling of
whiz kid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose career progresses rapidly
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Examples
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At the same time, though, Suze Orman was turning out to be a whiz-kid at math.
Suze Orman Tells All 2010
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The Steelers 'whiz-kid head coach, just 36, is the youngest
NFL Replay: 'Almost' is no solace after Cardinals' letdown 2009
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The motion said that in January 2007, just before the collapse of the subprime market, Goldman Sachs and its young whiz-kid Fabrice Tourre worked together to issue a set of synthetic collaterized debt obligations (CDOs) that it sold to ACA Management LLC (ACA) at the behest of the then-unknown hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Goldman Gaffe 2010
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For whiz-kid trader Fabrice Tourre, the trip to Capitol Hill to meet with angry members of Congress was less than a fabulous experience, writes Washington Sketch columnist Dana Milbank.
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The motion said that in January 2007, just before the collapse of the subprime market, Goldman Sachs and its young whiz-kid Fabrice Tourre worked together to issue a set of synthetic collaterized debt obligations (CDOs) that it sold to ACA Management LLC (ACA) at the behest of the then-unknown hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Goldman Gaffe 2010
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I had worked with big brother “Steve,” a mathematics whiz-kid, who was now happily situated at a fine college.
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The motion said that in January 2007, just before the collapse of the subprime market, Goldman Sachs and its young whiz-kid Fabrice Tourre worked together to issue a set of synthetic collaterized debt obligations (CDOs) that it sold to ACA Management LLC (ACA) at the behest of the then-unknown hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Goldman Gaffe 2010
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The motion said that in January 2007, just before the collapse of the subprime market, Goldman Sachs and its young whiz-kid Fabrice Tourre worked together to issue a set of synthetic collaterized debt obligations (CDOs) that it sold to ACA Management LLC (ACA) at the behest of the then-unknown hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Goldman Gaffe 2010
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For whiz-kid trader Fabrice Tourre, the trip to Capitol Hill to meet with angry members of Congress was less than a fabulous experience, writes Washington Sketch columnist Dana Milbank.
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You do not have to be an algorithm-wielding Wall Street whiz-kid to understand that the best way to prevent a bank from becoming too big to fail is preventing it from becoming too big in the first place.
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