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...Its former chief executive, Alan Bruce, left the group early this year....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Deborah Levy’s memoir The Cost of Living, which I read in two hours....
...His tax reform plans aim to raise at least $10bn a year, mainly by imposing levies on company dividends, offshore assets and large rural estates....
...Consumers have shouldered some costs, such as green levies on electricity bills, environmental airport taxes and appliance disposal charges....
...of Department, Economics, SOAS University of London Alain GrandjeanFondation Nicolas Hulot Ollivier BodinGreentervention Hans SchenkEmeritus professor of economics and business, Utrecht University Bruce...
...US deputy National Security Adviser Kevin EllisChair and senior partner, PwC UK and Middle East Ezekiel J EmanuelVice-Provost for Global Initiatives, co-director, Healthcare Transformation Institute, Levy...
...Support from the European fund would come in the form of loans, to be repaid through levies on the national banking system in the country where the failure occurred. But the devil is in the detail....
...However, the Tories shied away from any “carbon taxes”, while Labour said it would impose a windfall tax on oil and gas companies and the Lib Dems promised a frequent-flyers levy....
...“I think USTR may have been too clever by a half,” said Bruce Heyman, former US ambassador to Canada....
...“[Preparing for a new Nafta] takes [executive] time away from other stuff,” says Bruce Belzowski, managing director of the University of Michigan’s Automotive Futures group....
...Anthony Bruce, a partner in PwC’s people and HR consulting practice, said anxiety could “kill confidence”....
...Bruce Gordon, an Australian media magnate and partner in the Murdoch-led consortium, is suing KordaMentha in a bid to disrupt the CBS takeover....
...Bruce McGuire, the president of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, was holding court at a cocktail reception at Greenwich harbour late last year when he spotted one of his security detail milling about...
...The organisation’s charitable trust has two joint chairmen: Bruce Ritchie, a Mayfair property developer who founded Residential Land, and David Meller, from the luxury good specialist Meller Group, who also...
...Hugo Swire, a former Foreign Office minister, called the proposals “entirely unacceptable” while Fiona Bruce, MP for Congleton, called the scheme “shocking”....
...earlier stage in Indonesia, which scrapped a “luxury tax” on sweetened drinks in 2004, and India, where a government committee led by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian recommended a 40 per cent levy...
...Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, added that the commission “fundamentally, at a very very deep level misunderstands the value of intellectual property” and accused Brussels of “legal mumbo jumbo”....
...In the UK, the bank levy was created in 2011 to make banks contribute to economic recovery....
...Even mammoth ivory carvers are worried, says Bruce Schindler, who lives in Alaska and has been carving statues and jewellery out of mammoth ivory for 23 years....
...Like most other South American countries, it levies an import tax of 16 per cent, to which customs dues of 15 per cent and a “supplementary tax” of 1.2 per cent have to be added....
...Ed Balls, shadow chancellor, wants to raise £1.5bn-£2bn from a bonus tax if Labour wins the election; the levy is expected to be a one-off, but Mr Balls has not excluded repeating it....
...It is as if debt has been transformed into a social levy whose price is life itself. In any era, indebtedness exacerbates faultlines of inequality – in terms of class, race, gender and generations....
...Last time a Japanese government tried to hike the levy in 1997, a deep recession followed....
...One person familiar with the situation said Mr Levy and Mr Wren could be co-chief executives for a period after the merger, with Elisabeth Badinter and Bruce Crawford, also sharing the chairman role for...
...I have seen screaming Parisian crowds greet Andre Agassi at the French Open tennis tournament, and watched French intellectuals sit at the feet of Yale’s law professor Bruce Ackerman, imbibing his wisdom...
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