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...The timescales involved in life insurance do not necessarily suit venture capital investors, says Chris Hess, a partner at UK-based consultancy Oxbow....
...“I never imagined that I would so respect and love the federal police,” said Oscar Maroni, the owner of the Bahamas Club “hedonist complex”, who sported a Beagle Boys costume at the party....
...Beagle 2 mission to Mars (2002) One of Damien Hirst’s spot paintings was attached to the Beagle 2 spacecraft, which was meant to travel 250m miles to the Red Planet to search for signs of life....
...As a boy growing up in 1970s New York, Chris Meledandri never saw any cartoons or animated movies....
...Books such as The Bafut Beagles (1954) and The Whispering Land (1961) recount his adventures collecting animals, first for other zoos and then for his own, in places such as west Africa and Patagonia....
...Clive Beagles, co-manager of the JO Hambro UK Equity fund, similarly warned: “If austerity really bites in the western world what are the easiest targets? Tobacco, utilities, etc....
...They include Sir Ranulph Fiennes; George Band, who was at 23 the youngest climber to scale Everest for the first time in 1953, along with his equally distinguished successors Sir Chris Bonington and Doug...
...Bank dividends still account for about 20 per cent of the dividends of companies listed on the FTSE All Share, according to Chris White, UK equities fund manager at Threadneedle....
...Quammen explains clearly and entertainingly Darwin’s thought processes between the end of his voyage on the Beagle in 1836 and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859....
...Quammen takes up Darwin’s story after the famous voyage on HMS Beagle, and elucidates why it took so long to publish On the Origin of Species....
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