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...Google’s parent company Alphabet has a relatively respectable “B” grade from InfluenceMap....
...Willy Brandt (1969-74) combined detente with a hefty defence budget....
...In 1969, Kiesinger lost the elections to Social Democrat Willy Brandt, who had been an anti-Nazi exile in Scandinavia. “Now Hitler has definitely lost the war,” Brandt declared that night....
...“Every German government from Konrad Adenauer to Willy Brandt, from Gerhard Schröder to Angela Merkel, has known – Germany’s future lies in the European Union....
...The gains have nonetheless been concentrated in the highest rated junk bonds, particularly those rated double or single B....
...Funds invested in high-yield bonds — those rated double B plus or lower by one of the major credit agencies — also suffered large redemptions....
...Fitch said on Friday it was upgrading Greece from B- to B, based on improvements in the country’s fiscal position and reduced concern about its funding plans....
...Another Cohen piece, Gerhard Richter’s “A.B. Courbet”, was sold for $26.5m after a fierce telephone bidding war between two collectors from the UK and Mexico....
...So at this year’s meeting Cliff Gallant of Nomura will be joined by Jonathan Brandt of Ruane, Cuniff & Goldfarb to ask about the non-insurance businesses....
...Colonel Heinz Brandt, trying to get a better look at a map of the eastern front, shifted the briefcase slightly further from Hitler’s spot. That nudge may have changed history....
...You could get from A to B in half the time. But we were absolutely exhausted. The powers that be kept on telling us: “Oh, rubbish, you just want more money.”...
...“Some people love him and other people hate him,” says Richard Brandt, author of One Click, a forthcoming book on Mr Bezos....
...“St Edward’s, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B Power Station Behind” is just that: a country church overshadowed by the huge cooling towers....
...Urquiola has a passion for outdoor furniture and recently presented new ranges with B&B Italia and Moroso as well as Emu....
...The Shanghai B share market – for mainland-listed, foreign currency-denominated stocks – jumped 123 per cent....
...Brandt uses its antioxidant benefits in Water Booster, his skin supplement in liquid form....
...“Left-hand turns – that’s a huge issue,” says Cyndi Brandt, product manager for the Roadnet transportation suite....
...This was a time when photographers were expected to make work that was (a) posed, either in studio or outdoors; (b) reportage in the manner of Henri Cartier-Bresson; (c) “art,” like Bill Brandt’s nudes....
...At a recent public meeting he inflated a big balloon with Plan B written on its side and popped it with a needle. "Evidently, Plan B is a joke. It does not exist....
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