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...“I associate them with desperate saloon bar bores, suburban golfers and Alan Partridge.”...
...Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former US president Barack Obama, called it the “Great Gatsby curve”: social mobility is lower in countries where income inequality is higher...
...“The relationship between Woodford and the board is clearly ruptured — a change in manager is certainly likely,” said Alan Brierley, an analyst at Investec Securities who covers the trust....
...There was a spate in the 18th century among the Pitts and Grenville families and, later, the Cecils....
...By an irony lost on most commentators, the then chancellor’s move came 200 years to the month after prime minister William Pitt’s raid on the BoE’s gold reserves and the suspension of convertibility of paper...
...is a riot of animal prints and big-cat ceramic sculpture (the creation of Frank Pollaro, best known for his work on Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s yachts, and the furniture range he designed with Brad Pitt...
...It hit the news when it burnt down in 2013 and again when owners Sue and Alan Bussey rebuilt it from the ground up....
...Alan Greenspan 40....
...David Pitt-Watson, executive fellow at the London Business School, agrees that the investors’ legal battle is unlikely to run smoothly....
...Prosecutors told the court that phone records showed Ms Huthart, who worked on the film Mr and Mrs Smith with Ms Jolie and Brad Pitt, was a victim of phone hacking on four occasions....
...He intersplices his long sentences with references to Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and throws in a bit of French radical thinker Alan Badiou for good measure....
...“At the end of the day, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck,” said Peter Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner and president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest....
...The project is currently being considered by Brad Pitt. “But [Pitt] can do anything he wants. So [in a few months’ time] he might have another point of view.”...
...But in his statement lies the nub of Alan Bennett’s adroit and funny 1991 play....
...Moneyball is Brad Pitt in a dugout. Oh dear; oh dear. Here is baseball, reel upon reel and inning upon inning....
...Some scheme fiduciaries are less optimistic than Mr Pitt-Watson on the collective efforts of asset owners....
...In part it’s a comedy of embarrassment, a Scandinavian-ensemble answer to Ricky Gervais or Alan Partridge. Yet the very obliquity keeps wrong-footing us....
...“The degree of change in unrealised marks on and off balance sheet was surprising,” said Andrew Marquardt, bank analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton....
...“People are seeing the Bloomberg report as a positive, as it adds clarity to banks’ capital positions,” said Alan Ruskin, strategist at RBS....
...stock market made little movement, however, with the benchmark S&P 500 index continuing to head towards its highest closing price since January 9 as investors welcomed a positive note from analysts Fox-Pitt...
...(Alan G. Parker) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the longest striptease in film history....
...The younger brother (played by Brad Pitt) is killed and the other (played by Craig Sheffer) never really recovers....
...Sir Michael Pitt, who led the government-commissioned review into the floods of 2007, said last summer that many people were “in denial” about the risk of flooding they faced....
...In contrast to many parts of Australia, there is no shortage of water on Fraser, says Alan Wetton of LJ Hooker estate agents....
...The recovery came even though analysts at Fox-Pitt Kelton joined several others in forecasting a fourth-quarter loss for the bank....
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