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Legions of investment bankers are bellying up for the tens of millions of dollars in fees that will become available.

From Time Magazine Archive

His hand is on the tiller; the shore is receding; his eye is aloft, where the sails are bellying out before the wind.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon