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...Its appeal goes beyond steam-train enthusiasts like Michael Portillo, who featured the railway line on his BBC television series, due to the beauty of the surroundings....
...Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association, has written to Downing Street calling for a freeze on all loans, interest repayments, taxes and utilities....
...Judge Michael Chambers QC on Tuesday said the accident was the result of “catastrophic failure” by the company to ensure basic health and safety....
...Merlin chief executive Nick Varney said that weakness in the euro had also adversely affected visits to its London attractions....
...Mr Robey’s old mate Michael Zaoui has also been prospering as a double act with brother and ex-Goldmanite Yoel as Zaoui & Co....
...Sterling is overvalued,” said Nick Varney, chief executive of theme park operators Merlin Entertainments. “People talking about the benefits of a strong pound are being very naive.”...
...Michael Sohn, a leading antitrust lawyer at Davis Polk, agrees. “I believe it is harder to clear a merger without remedies now than it was during the prior administration,” he says....
...“In the UK we are working hard to handle additional turnover through improved efficiency,” says Sir Michael Bibby, managing director of Liverpool-based Bibby Line, which includes shipping, financial, distribution...
...Ms Varney’s predecessors in the Bush administration sought record fines and penalties against airlines and other industries involved in collusion....
...Christine Varney, newly appointed assistant attorney-general in charge of antitrust policy, has indicated a desire to return to an active interpretation of the 1890 Sherman Act....
...So Christine Varney, President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice department’s antitrust division, should take time to unpick the deal and exact strict concessions if it goes ahead at all....
...former parent company IAC, would become chairman; Irving Azoff, the artist manager who became Ticketmaster’s chief executive last year, would become executive chairman; and Live Nation chief executive Michael...
...Michael Devereux of the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University last week argued that the proposed anti-avoidance measures go far beyond what is needed to protect the British tax base....
...The Varney review of the relationship between big business and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, published last month, is intended to address “the nature of that relationship and tone of engagement”....
...Exclusive interior designers such as Carlton Varney turned up at the vernissage benefit for the Historical Society of Palm Beach County on January 11....
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