ke a lot of money. When my men come to me tomorrow morning, I’ll be damned if I’m going to lie to them. A curious expression that means "there is no possible way that…" What if one day you were wrong? For once, if your compass was off? A "compass" is a tool that sailors use on the ocean to know in what direction they are travelling (North, South, East and West). Would you be willing to wreck your men’s future? "To wreck" something is to destroy it. I don’t go to sleep with no whore and I don’t wake up with no whore. An insulting word for a prostitute, and Carl’s way to describe Gekko. Bud learns a very painful lesson about Gekko, greed and Wall Street. We got a guy at Jackson-Steinham buying large chunks of Teldar Paper for an off-shore account. Here, a "chunk" of stock is several shares, or a significant amount. I got a strange call from the SEC. They asked to see my records. This is heavy, Bud. The SEC is the Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigates illegal stock sales. In this case, "heavy" is a slangy way of saying that something is very serious. They’re always looking for red flags. A "red flag" is an expression which is used to describe anything that is suspicious, or which might need to be investigated. They never come up with anything, Roger. We’re invulnerable on this one. If the government fails to "come up" with evidence, they fail to find any. A person who is "invulnerable" cannot be caught or hurt. You’re only the president of the company. What the hell do you know, anyway? "The hell" is added to Wh questions in order to show emotion such as frustration, or here, surprise. Gekko’s got 12% of the stock and climbing, plus he’s got the unions in his back pocket. If you have somebody "in your pocket," they will do whatever you ask them to do. We must have your assurance that you’ll pay us back in the first 12 months, and the only way we see this happening is liquidating the hangers and planes. "To liquidate" property is to sell it off to whoever is willing to pay the most. "Hangers" are the large buildings where airplanes are repaired. We got the Bezeebo brothers lined up to build condos where the hangers are. Short for condominiums, which are apartments that are owned, not rented. I got the Texas boys drooling at my kneecaps for the routes and the slots. "To drool" is to let saliva or spit run out of your mouth, like a baby. "Routes" are the cities which airlines fly between, and in this case, a "slot" is a gate for planes at an airport. The beauty of the deal is the over-funded pension. $50,000,000 buys him the minimum annuities for 6,000 employees, and he walks with the rest. When Gekko buys the airline, he must pay $50,000,000 to the employees for their retirement pensions, but since there may
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