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...Law firm Goodwin has brought a five-partner team from Sidley Austin to its London office: Erik Dahl, Christian Iwasko, Sava Savov, Michelle Tong, and John Van De North....
...Divisions within the North as well as the North/South divide....
...Once caught, the waste will bob along the boom towards the V centrepoint, to be hauled out and shipped to shore every six weeks....
...Here was a venue not readily associated with the wilder shores of innovation but Pomona was a strange, experimental piece....
...Barrick raised $3bn in equity in November to shore up its finances by paying off part of its load of debt....
...US paper mills and oil refineries will enjoy the cheap gas bonanza but not much production in these sectors is likely to shift to US shores....
...Guaranteed to entertain, from its attention-grabbing opening line to its gloriously bizarre climax. Pow!...
...Van Middelaar rejects the idea that the EU must become a political union to survive....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Customisation is already a lucrative business line for carmakers – notably for urban minicars such as Fiat’s 500....
...Antoine van Agtmael coined the phrase “emerging markets” in 1981....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...We were never reliant on top-line growth for our investment thesis and we never overpaid but it is harder to turn round a business with top-line headwinds rather than top-line tailwinds.”...
...Banks, including administrators of the UK private banking arm of Iceland’s collapsed Kaupthing, further punished the yacht market by withdrawing credit lines for boat purchases....
...Out went most of the ceremonial directors who had geographical connections to BofA’s North Carolina base and an unstinting loyalty to Lewis....
...Bartlett, Northampton, MA CB: That’s a persuasive line of argument to me....
...He added that these included both the provision of credit lines by banks and separate moves to shore up the capital bases of the insurers....
...Efforts to shore up US bond insurers gathered pace this week as New York state regulators appointed investment bankers to advise on a rescue plan that could include back-up credit lines....
...That sentiment is mirrored by business leaders across the Atlantic, alert to whether the US malaise is spreading to their home shores....
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
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