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...“He has a sense of economic patriotism,” said Gervais Pellissier, a senior executive at French telecoms group Orange who met Rémont in 2002 when he helped ailing computer company Bull negotiate a state bailout...
...In the French resort of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, numbers fell by 38 per cent....
...In episode one, “Jobseeker”, Mandy has a tense meeting with her long-suffering benefits adviser (Tom Basden, who like Greenidge and Morgan appeared in the Ricky Gervais comedy After Life)....
...While Rio’s current boss Jean-Sébastien Jacques can point to exiting thermal coal as well as developing “carbon-free” metal projects, and Anglo’s Mr Cutifani can stay on to pursue low power and low water...
...Even in a bomber jacket and torn jeans, Brent is still a provincial prat eager to be “cool” while sweating bullets of social anxiety under his collar....
...The writer is deputy editor of the New Statesman Letter in response to this article: Gervais, God and a category error / From John Leonard...
...The artists whose work I would collect if I could include Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol....
...Jean Miller, chief executive of the crowdfunding platform InvestingZone, advises investors to ask themselves how much they expect a company to be able to grow....
...The braggadocio rhetoric of Tony Hancock; the ingratiating laddishness taken ad delirium by Ricky Gervais in The Office … Then along comes cinema to crush the joke....
...Songs from the canon – “Heroes”, “Space Oddity”, “The Jean Genie” – play over the headphones as you walk round the rooms, activated automatically as you approach an exhibit....
...He leads me through the main dining room, where a painting by French artist Pierre Yves Gervais looms large. “I’m a big fan of Formula One....
...“People were more conservative with new issues, so it’s been very difficult for IPOs to get across,” says Gervais Williams, managing director of MAM Funds. “What’s interesting is the yields....
...In an area well-known to tourists – the ski resorts of Megève and St Gervais are close by – finding a secret spot is something of a miracle....
...I was decked out in the sexiest clothes a self-conscious prepubescent trapped in rural West Virginia could pilfer: a yellow tube top, rainbow jeans, a pair of white sandals designed by Dr Scholl....
...The makers have, understandably if not wisely, resolved simply to serve up more, very much more, of what was on offer first time around, and so most of the cast – Ben Stiller, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams...
...In profile, wearing a waistcoat and jeans and with her hair tied high in a ponytail, she looked like Françoise Hardy doing a Marcel Marceau routine....
...In recent years, we have had Osama bin Laden, Princess Diana, Madonna and Ricky Gervais as versions of Che. Not all of those figures believed in armed insurrection....
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