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Used-car salesmen, lawyers and journalists can relax; they've been replaced as America's favorite villains by corporate executives, or at least investment bankers.

Hailed only a short while ago as masters of the universe and princes of perpetual profits, they now are reviled. Consider:

*Americans, no surprise, overwhelmingly oppose the huge bonuses that are paid to employees by Wall Street companies, according to polls. A recent Quinnipiac survey, however, shows that almost one person in three favors the government imposing a limit on all executive compensation.