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...A joint venture of private equity group Lime Rock and conservative oil billionaire Tim Dunn’s CrownQuest, the group pumps less oil than the others — but is actively weighing a sale, according to people familiar...
...Weak bank boards, poor risk processes and insufficiently robust risk committees allowed the balance sheets of Northern Rock, HBOS et al to expand unsustainably....
...Has its day finally arrived?...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Strickler, a co-founder of the company, recently became its chief executive, and the rhythms of his day do not seem to include time for leisurely afternoon swims....
...… The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus, Yale, RRP£16.99/$28 To veteran critic Marcus, rock claims to “divine all truths, reveal all mysteries, and escape all restrictions”: a kind...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...the sell-offs in Asia in recent days is a result of Wall Street’s continuing weakness?...
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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