1.   A large corporate bond trader was waiting for me, like an unfed house pet, when I returned to the office.

2.   At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders.

3.   Good bond traders had fast brains and enormous stamina.

4.   He pushed his way on to the trading floor and became a bond trader.

5.   He was thought by many within Salomon to be the best bond trader on Wall Street.

6.   I found imagining myself as a bond salesman only Marginally more plausible than imagining myself as a bond trader.

7.   Salomon bond traders knew about fools because that was their job.

8.   And bond traders could be wrong about rates.

9.   And Thayer, a former bond trader, says he enforces a policy against foul language.

10.   And then the buildings fell, taking bond traders and firefighters alike.