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Clearly, it hasn't always been this way. Executives pampered themselves, says Koehn, the Harvard Business School professor, creating elite networking groups like the Lunar Society of 18th century industrial Britain, or the Duquesne Club, a fraternity of Pittsburgh barons. Even the most recent boom, the go-go '80s, didn't include the same garish outlays of cash. The Gordon Geckos of the world may have spent time at the Racquet Club or the Metropolitan, and it wasn't uncommon to find SoHo restaurants jammed with loudmouthed young brokers whose companies entertained them with elegant entrees and shots of tequila. But Wall Street never thought to invite half of Manhattan.