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...It used to be home to George Bernard Shaw. The view didn’t suck. A couple of nice dinners and a West End show later, I don’t recall ever losing an account....
...Chief executive Bernard Looney bragged that the oil company was a “cash machine”, and that it would not reduce UK investment in the event of a windfall tax....
...The riff, a great swaggering beast of a thing, came to Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammett while he was jamming in a hotel room in the early hours....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Twitter: @Skapinker ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: View from the Poor House is that life goes on / From Liam T Kirk...
...Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane is the new Captain Kirk....
...John Hughes: A Life in Film, by Kirk Honeycutt, Race Point, RRP$40 Giant coffee-table tribute to the oddly under-discussed John Hughes (1950-2009), who remains ceaselessly influential as a writer, producer...
...Kirk Rowe, CEO of Execaire, the number-three charter operator, says: “I think we’re in turbulent times. It’s a very challenging industry.”...
...Kirk Ludtke, analyst at CRT Capital, said: “Auto loans as an asset class performed brilliantly during the financial crisis and you could make the argument that firms could now be more aggressive and stimulate...
...Kirk Ludtke, analyst at CRT Capital, urged clients this week to buy GM shares on the grounds that almost half the growth in global light-vehicle output over the next five years is expected to take place...
...Born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, New York, he was the son of an immigrant tailor....
...Peter Long, chief executive of Tui Travel, and Richard Kirk, his counterpart at Peacocks, are among UK-based businessmen that invested in Frankel International....
...controversy stirred by TPG’s attempt to provide bankruptcy financing to a company that the private equity firm owns; Henny on the prospect for more losses on subprime mortgages at AIG; Matt Garrahan’s on Kirk...
...On Tuesday, Kirk Kerkorian, the casinos mogul and one of the largest outside investors, sold part of his 6.4 per cent stake and hinted that he may soon offload the rest....
...Kirk Kerkorian, the 91-year-old billionaire, has again raised his stake in Ford Motor, and signalled a continuing interest in injecting capital into the lossmaking US carmaker....
...Ford was trading at $6.84, well below the current $8.50 tender offer by Kirk Kerkorian, the reclusive billionaire. The offer for 20m shares expires on June 9....
...The head of the Ford family on Thursday welcomed a recent investment by Kirk Kerkorian, the reclusive billionaire, in the 105-year-old Detroit carmaker controlled by Henry Ford’s descendants....
...Chrysler was the target of a takeover attempt in 1995 by Kirk Kerkorian, the casino mogul, supported by Mr Iacocca. But their bid pushed it into the arms of Germany’s Daimler-Benz in 1998....
...Bernard Lapasset, the French Rugby Federation president, has promised “a little something, a friendly gesture” to honour him in Marseilles....
...Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda has also expressed interest. Don Walker, Magna’s joint chief executive, said that, “whatever happens with Chrysler, Russian Machines would certainly have heavy involvement”....
...“Cerberus will probably aggressively push the UAW and the Chrysler dealers for concessions, which General Motors and Ford will try to emulate,” Kirk Ludtke, an analyst at CRT Capital, said....
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...Kirk Kerkorian (Tracinda) — Kerkorian has thrown his hat in the ring for Chrysler, after previous agitation at both Chrysler and GM Eric Knight (Knight Vinke) — Knight made his name fighting the management...
...A year and a half after buying into General Motors as a would-be sponsor of epochal change at the world’s largest carmaker, Kirk Kerkorian seems to have quietly exited the company....
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