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...Warwick Lightfoot: The best comparison is the 1970s....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...The M came off first, then the P. Soon the T, R and U were gone too....
...October 27Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou announces a referendum to approve the second package of emergency lending designed to prevent sovereign default on October 31Mario Draghi replaces Jean-Claude...
...In the US overnight, the S&P 500 eased 0.1 per cent from a record high....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...It is unlikely that he will go much further unless a) financial crisis intervenes b) the election is brought forward or c) war is declared....
...Kennedy’s martyred body from New York to Washington, D.C. Another screen, another haunting tableau....
...In late December credit rating agency S&P cut Ukraine’s credit rating to triple C, nine notches below investment grade, and said that without additional aid, default would become inevitable....
...(FT, New Scientist) Food for thought A hip hop education Irvin Weatherby Jr, a lecturer on English composition and literature at the City University of New York, teaches hip hop to his classes: “it’s a...
...“We are pleased with our strong finish to FY 2014 and, given the fourth-quarter’s improvement in demand, begin FY 2015 with optimism,” said Douglas C. Yearley, Jr, chief executive at Toll Brothers....
...(Financial Times) Merkel has sought to prevent the diplomatic isolation of David Cameron on Friday – over the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker – turning into a major crisis in Britain’s relations with...
...Futures trading is predicting modest falls on Wall Street at the open, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average called down 6 points and the S&P down 2 according to data from Valutrade....
...(Bloomberg) Cameron prepares to force Juncker vote: He will warn on Monday that European leaders are setting a “dangerous precedent” by deciding to back Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission...
...“He was a great man, a classy man, who created a fantastic company from virtually nothing,” Claude Lamoureux, former chief executive of the C$129.5bn (US$124.6bn) Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, said on...
...(FastFT) Cameron vs Juncker continues: Cameron on Monday urged fellow European leaders to “stand up and be counted”, as he raised the stakes in his bid to block the “stitch-up” appointment of Jean-Claude...
...Copyright (c) 2013 Neil Irwin Introduction: Opening the Spigot On August 9, 2007, Jean-Claude Trichet awoke at his childhood home of Saint-Malo, on the coast of Brittany, ready for a day puttering about...
...But there’s also this, which makes us go hmmm: (c) EXCEPTION TO CONCENTRATION LIMIT....
...Inhofe Senator Tom Coburn Senator Ron Wyden Senator Jeff Merkley Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. Senator Patrick J....
...Jean Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, eurozone’s monetary guardian, welcomed the announcements from Italy and Spain of measures to accelerate their reforms, and promised to “actively implement” its...
...When US stock markets opened they plunged, however, with the S&P 500 index falling by 6.7 per cent on Monday and shares in some of the largest banks down by more than 20 per cent....
...It was also supported by another signal from Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, that interest rates will rise at its meeting next week....
...Jancis’s picks France • A&C Binner, Alsace • Josmeyer, Alsace • Réné Mosse, Loire • Ch Fouquet, Loire • C&P Breton, Loire • Puzelat, Loire • Jean Foillard, Beaujolais • Julien Sunier, Beaujolais...
...Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, said a Greek default was “out of the question”....
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