The thinking was that fair-haired, winsome Mormon boys from Bountiful, Utah, do not have any business swimming with corporate sharks in the Garden cesspool.

Vodafone's bid has unleashed a political outcry here about "casino capitalism," ruthless corporate "sharks" and the reckless destruction of "corporate culture."

"Harold's not a political shark, he's a corporate shark," said one former City Hall official who knows both Mr. Levy and Dr. Crew.

When J. B. Schramm talks about getting poor kids into college, he sounds less like a bleeding heart than a corporate shark pitching a moneymaking scheme.

Watching the unworldly academic go up against the corporate shark was the worst mismatch since Godzilla versus Bambi.

She'd hired the cleverest and most ambitious corporate sharks, and one had to expect a little feeding frenzy now and then.

I feel deeply worried, agitated and disappointed when I think that the continuity that has created this very fragile environment is now threatened by a corporate shark.

The machinations of corporate sharks were a slightly hazy area in her experience.

He was unshaven, his eyes bloodshot--not the face of a cold corporate shark, but of a man too distraught to care what he looked like.

Though torn because of his feelings for Iva, Kirk was still the corporate shark and drew up the papers to have Walsh buy out the farm.