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...It distressed rather than insulted customers, unlike the furore of Gerald Ratner’s 1991 speech in which the jeweller described his wares as “total crap”....
...The paper by David Ratner and Jae Sim, two Fed economists, in practice tries to torch this argument....
...Credit Suisse has hired David Wildermuth from Goldman Sachs as chief risk officer, as the Swiss bank sets about reinforcing its controls after a series of crises....
...In 2016, Mr Johnson branded David Cameron and fellow Remainers as the “Gerald Ratners” of UK politics for selling a “crap” deal as something sparkly and worth having....
...One thing to start: Don’t miss David Sheppard’s deep dive into the treatment of expat staff at Saudi Aramco....
...Law firm Goodwin has hired Joshua Ratner as partner in its New York private equity practice. He joins from York Capital where he was general counsel....
...David LaRue, Forest City chief executive, who initially cast a vote against the deal, ultimately flipped....
...Now some Ratner family members feel cheated. The vote on the Forest City board was initially deadlocked, 6-6. But the company’s chief executive David LaRue ultimately flipped to back the deal....
...“I will concede, we haven’t gotten there yet,” Ripple’s chief cryptographer David Schwartz said in an interview....
...Forest City declined to put Mr Ratner and David LaRue, its chief executive, up for interviews, citing US securities regulations ahead of a shareholder vote....
...Read more about Ratner in this profile by the FT's Eric Platt and James Fontanella-Khan....
...Mr Ratner has denied the allegations....
...Playboy Enterprises froze productions involving Mr Ratner....
...In another business contradiction that typifies the dichotomies within Huawei, he abruptly dismissed the smartwatch in a Gerald Ratner moment — undeterred that he led a company that made them....
...Ms Clemes’ admission falls short of “doing a Ratner”....
...Gerald Ratner confessed that it did his children “quite a bit of a good when I was in my wilderness years” following the infamous speech that cost him his job, as their inheritance was no longer assured....
...Mr Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, said the two did not have a special relationship and that the army private was “not taking direction from WikiLeaks”....
...The Jump Artist, by Austin Ratner, Viking, RRP£12.99, 380 pages David Lodge calls it “biofic” – the fictionalising of a real person’s life. The sub-genre can be divided according to literary status....
...David Stern, commissioner of the NBA, said that he was “encouraged” by Mr Prokhorov’s commitment to the Nets and to the opportunity the deal presents for expanding basketball in Russia....
...I look forward to causing Mr Ratner some surprise.”...
...Calls to David Unwin Jr, managing director of Tamar Group, were not returned....
...(The film was finally completed by Brett Ratner.) “I realised that I was a tiny cog in this huge machine, and I panicked. I felt there wasn’t a good enough reason for being away from my family.”...
...It looks to me like a PR gaffe equivalent to Ratner’s ‘total crap’....
...“It will take us a while to get our heads around this,” said Jeff Ratner, digital director at Mindshare Interaction....
...Richard Ratner of Seymour Pierce stuck to his forecast of £143.5m pre-tax profits....
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