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...To that pantheon of office drones must surely be added Friends’ sardonic Chandler Bing, played so beautifully by the actor Matthew Perry, who died at the weekend at the age of 54....
...International benchmark Brent was down 4.6 per cent, to $73.54 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, fell 4.4 per cent, to $69.46....
...Brent Scowcroft, the US national security adviser, tried to convince Baker that nukes divided among Ukrainians and others unable to launch them might be less threatening to the US than the original Soviet...
...The pair was subpoenaed by Congressional impeachment investigators, as was Rick Perry, energy secretary....
...Brent crude broke through $80 a barrel again this week, and Anjli Raval in the Financial Times set out five factors to watch that are driving the price....
...Oil prices continued to slide during the week, with Brent crude down at about $73 a barrel on Friday....
...Oil prices have continued to decline, with Brent crude dropping below $70 a barrel on Friday for the first time since April....
...Brent crude was about $58.50 a barrel on Friday, close to its level on Monday....
...Rick Perry, the US energy secretary, reiterated his insistence that the administration was not currently considering a release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring prices down....
...Brent crude up above $60 a barrel for longer than four months will have that effect....
...These factors, together with big drawdowns on US crude inventories, pushed Brent crude to its highest level for six weeks above $51 per barrel....
...Market reaction on Monday reflected that view, with Brent crude dropping about 2 per cent to below $74 a barrel, reversing much of its rise on Friday....
...On Monday, Brent crude retreated 1.3 per cent to $62.84 a barrel....
...“When I first got here you used to have to walk around with a knife,” Aaron Brent, an inmate at Angola since 1976, told me on one of my visits to the prison....
...The halftime show featuring Katy Perry drew 118.5m viewers....
...The price of Brent crude has fallen by almost a quarter since mid-June. As well as using oil as a bet on improving economic growth, funds have also bought energy stocks and bonds....
...The old Republican foreign policy establishment, which includes Brent Scowcroft, James Baker and Henry Kissinger, who all served Nixon, is hoping that Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, throws his...
...(Financial Times) Alp Ercil, a former Perry Asia head, said to Raise $1.1bn for new fund aimed at Asia distressed debt....
...Universal would sell Parlophone but keep some acts including the Beatles and Katy Perry....
...Following the rise and fall of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Texas governor Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain, former House speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest candidate to enjoy a short-lived surge...
...It may have been a private equity-style transaction when Peacocks was taken out in 2005, but owners of the high street retail chain welcoming new chairman Allan Leighton are US hedge funds Och-Ziff and Perry...
...Brent Davis....
...Former England full-back and British Lion Matt Perry has retired from rugby because of a back injury....
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