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...It backs a formula that tinkers with the seven-member transitional presidential council (known as the Snake of Seven Heads)....
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...More hefty paperwork would be produced during Evelyn’s years as an adviser to Charles II....
...tony.barber@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Tinker, tailor, soldier . . . journalist? / From Andrew Stokes, Hong Kong...
...Charles Scharf, chief executive of Wells Fargo, is also scheduled to speak at a panel organised by the Institute of International Finance on Friday....
...two distinguishing characteristics: its deep relationship with a diverse group of consumers and its authoritative marketing to them, typified by a 1993 campaign in which the tempestuous basketball star Charles...
...Paul Arathoon, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said that if business property relief was withdrawn, investors “may feel that the risk profile of Aim has become unpalatable”....
...Probably not, but it’s fun to tinker. Ardill tells me about a group of artist-activists called Platform....
...Years later, Ken Tinker, the office boy at the time, remembered a tall, softly spoken gentleman in knee-length rubber boots and a sheepskin coat....
...Shortly before Charles Li boarded a plane to Beijing, the head of Hong Kong’s stock exchange admitted that there had been some “disagreements” over the future of Stock Connect, the trading link between Hong...
...There is an acknowledgment, however, that the Conservatives are just as likely to tinker with the tax regime....
...Behind the scenes, advisers feel it would be politically foolhardy for the chancellor to tinker with IHT rules in a way that could force the wealthiest to pay more, but they see the review as a sign of intent...
...exclaimed Barbizon artist Charles-François Daubigny. “When they paint fruit or flowers they appear to be made of glass or sugar. Figures are as rigid as iron....
...The variety of smaller, fast-growing companies in Shenzhen is the chief attraction of the increased access to China, said Mark Tinker, head of AXA Framlington Equities Asia....
...It is obvious that Hislop himself wants to tinker with our ruling class, rather than obliterate it, Trump-style....
...“With the televised debates ramping up, the momentum appears to be shifting and, being unsure how to hedge, many traders seem to be simply taking down their active positions,” says Mark Tinker of Axa Investment...
...Enon is the name of the small town in Massachusetts where Charles Washington Crosby lives with his wife and daughter, scratching together an income as a gardener and decorator....
...Russia’s most famous contemporary actor, Konstantin Khabensky, who did a cameo as a KGB spymaster Colonel Polyakov in the 2011 UK film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, came out against the law....
...The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers, by Francis Haskell, Yale, RRP£30/$60 A connoisseur’s volume: the story of the European dispersal of Charles...
...So the Treasury may well be tempted to tinker with the numerical targets or with the nature of the target (e.g. a US-style dual mandate). Should it?...
...He continued to “tinker” with new ways to improve robotic behaviour before retiring to Connecticut....
...Or to turn sideways and revalue the role of “ordinary” people in these troubled times: merchants, farmers, small traders, washerwomen and seamstresses, tinkers and vagrants?...
...Often they remain the largest shareholder (owning a majority, in Mr Nixon’s case) and are bound to be tempted to tinker....
...Charles Soludo, the energetic governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has been working hard to change that with reforms designed to consolidate and strengthen the country’s banks....
...One of the first collections in the UK was assembled in the 19th century by the eccentric 10th Baronet of Lamport, Sir Charles Isham, at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire, central England....
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