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...He traces many problems to deluded ideas formed thousands of miles away in Washington — which encouraged a descent into sectarianism. The FT described the book as “excellent and haunting”....
...One driver pulling up at the station said he had driven from Chelsea — around five miles — without being able to find a filling station with fuel....
...The proposed open offer has support of the so-called “Sandy Lane set”, who hold 55 per cent of the equity — currency trader Joe Lewis’s Piedmont group, Derrick Smith’s Smoothfield and Elpida, the investment...
...The New York gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder of Salon 94, opens a 17,500 sq ft headquarters in a five-storey Beaux Arts building on Manhattan’s “Museum Mile” this week (3, East 89th Street)....
...Baird has hired Derrick Li as a managing director on its global healthcare investment banking team....
...When explaining her work, her mind goes a million miles a minute. Most people cannot keep up....
...Wendy Derrick, founder, Happywrap I hated all the waste at Christmas — 277,000 miles of wrapping paper ends up in landfill each year....
...“They reminded me of the Miles Davis quintet in the mid-1960s, when everybody was quick to respond and had total control of their instrument.”...
...A weak pound does wonders for international revenues, as many, including our colleague Miles Johnson, have pointed out....
...Apart from the six core titles, David and his brother Derrick, Aptive’s chief experience officer, recommend a wider reading list of nearly 40 titles to team members....
...The topside comprises an accommodation module, a power station, helipad, drilling derricks and facilities to produce and export oil and gas....
...The Pioneering Spirit, a catamaran the length of five jumbo jets, will next year sidle up to Royal Dutch Shell’s Brent Delta oil platform in the North Sea, 115 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands....
...The Escalade, which achieves a modest 17 miles per gallon average fuel economy, enjoyed sales last month nearly twice those of November last year....
...The crowd of several hundred largely followed the instructions, looping up and down around a mile of Ferguson’s West Florissant Avenue. Apart from an isolated fight, few incidents disrupted the calm....
...The evening programme featured two one-time Miles Davis sidemen....
...Cumbria’s police chief has sought to head off criticism of how quickly his officers reacted to Wednesday’s killing spree by Derrick Bird by revealing that all but one of the deaths happened within an hour...
...With drummer Kendrick Scott and bassist Derrick Hodge from the Blanchard session, the accompaniment is top-dollar fluent jazz....
...They were 135 miles offshore. More than 24 hours would pass before Mr Stone’s wife knew that he was safe....
...“For the UK, fresh concerns about the key banking sector have fed through into broader concerns about the outlook for the economy,” Mr Derrick said....
...… Derrick Scott first visited McLeod’s Tyre Shop 20 years ago....
...Miles Templeman, director-general of the Institute of Directors, also gave Lyon’s proposal a cautious welcome. “It is well worth exploring,” he said....
...Kelvyn Derrick, for services to engineering. Geoffrey Drage, for services to intellectual property rights. Richard Emery, broadcaster. Jane Gardam, author....
...The first thing I notice – it is impossible not to – are the massive Krupps towers and derricks from the nearby shipyards that loom over the town....
...“Opposition to drilling in Florida is a mile wide and an inch deep,” says Dave Mica of the Florida Petroleum Institute. “The more prices rise, the more people are willing to look at the all options.”...
...Extending over nearly 900 sq miles, with 14 miles of coastline, 14 big bodies of water and six serious mountains over 900 metres above sea-level, it has a population of just 43,000, living in roughly half...
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