We sank low in our seats during the week that the people from the equity department spoke.

The equity department was an object lesson in life's reversals.

And, hard as it was for me to appreciate, the people in the equity department were having careers.

In other words, if you joined the equity department, your mother would know what you did for a living.

Eventually it became uncool to be seen in the equity department.

Imagine our horror, then, when the equity department began a trainee outreach program.

By the cruel light of morning, the equity department indeed appeared once again to be pimply and gross.

This was a lucky break, first because no one else wanted me except the equity department and second because I liked them.

The rest of the equity department was tossed between despair and confusion.

Mr. Davis said the firm had not decided to whom the research and private equity departments would report.