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...I very much enjoyed Bruce Daisley’s LinkedIn post sharing an absolute corker of a PR gaffe from the chief executive of WebMD in the US....
...Any debate would be “hugely symbolic”, said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official who is now head of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution....
...By the end of day Bob Corker and Bob Menendez, the Republican chair and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had used a law called the Global Magnitsky Act to order the White House...
...Sara Bachiorri Head sommelier at restaurant Chez Bruce, London Last night I opened a bottle of 2014 Puligny-Montrachet, Domaine Blain-Gagnard, which was rather good with my home-cooked chicken breast and...
...Speculative investors, including Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, Perry Capital and Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds, are still sitting on paper profits from their investments, however, and insist there is...
...The debate over what to do with Fannie and Freddie had a new twist after Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds in November proposed taking over operations of the bulk of the mortgage finance companies....
...Senators Mike Crapo, David Vitter and Bob Corker were among six Republicans on the Senate banking committee who opposed Ms Yellen’s vice-chair nomination in 2010....
...In November, Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds proposed a private sector plan for taking over the bulk of operations....
...Other government officials have rejected the plan, led by Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds, to recapitalise a bulk of the mortgage finance firms....
...Paulson & Co, Claren Road Asset Management and Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Capital Management are among the funds to have made bets on Fannie and Freddie....
...Senator Bob Corker scoffs at that characterisation....
...Other Republican lawmakers, including Bob Corker, of Tennessee, have expressed similar reservations and fears of runaway inflation if Mr Bernanke’s policies were to continue....
...“In a normal year, Republicans have a natural 10-point advantage in Tennessee,” says Bruce Oppenheimer, professor of politics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “But this is not a normal year....
...It pits Bob Corker, Republican former mayor of Chattanooga, against Harold Ford, a Democratic congressman who would become the first black senator from the South since the civil war....
...Tennessee: Republican Bob Corker, a former mayor of Chattanooga, defeated Democrat Harold Ford Jr for the seat held by retiring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist....
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