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...Aged 65, she remains on the board of charitable organisations, including Oxfam in the UK and in the US the Carter Center, a human rights organisation, and the MacArthur Foundation, an educational charity...
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...The rapper, real name Shawn Carter, is the archetypal American rags-to-riches story....
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...Wisely, Carter reflects that while Nicholas II would have been a fine constitutional monarch in place of George V, it would have taken a truly exceptional autocrat to save tsarist Russia....
...Bratz dolls were designed by Carter Bryant, a former Barbie employee, who the court heard had come up with the range while still working for Mattel....
...Mattel scored an important victory in the first stage of the trial last week, when the jury ruled that the toy company owned sketches of the Bratz dolls which were drawn by a Bratz designer, Carter Bryant...
...Edward Bonham Carter, London LS: The probability of deflation is very high because defaults are vaporising bank equity....
...Mattel rose 10.9 per cent to $21.01 after beating quarterly profit forecasts. In contrast, Starbucks ’ cautious outlook for 2008 unnerved investors. The shares fell 1.6 per cent to $18.91....
...Mattel, up 6.6 per cent at $23.94, finished the week with an apology to the Chinese people for damaging the reputation of their manufacturers after the recall of around 21m toys....
...Mattel alleges in the suit that Carter Bryant, the doll designer who created Bratz, sold the range to MGA while employed by Mattel. “We see it as a matter of principle,” says a Mattel spokeswoman....
...US business has hired some of the country’s most powerful lawyers to lobby the court to take its side in the case, Stoneridge v Scientific-Atlanta....
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...“Foreworded by President Carter,” he remarks. Then he says: “Yeah, it’s being foreworded by President Carter. President Carter. By President Carter.” “Wow,” I finally reply....
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