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...He is doing so while Walter Bagehot must be rolling over in his grave. Dr Desmond Lachman American Enterprise Institute,Washington, DC, US...
...So many of the great masterpieces of early modernism were factories — Bata’s city of shoes in Zlin, Albert Kahn’s industrial spaces for the Ford Motor Company, Walter Gropius’s Fagus plant, Brinkmann and...
...Archbishop Desmond Tutu has long maintained that Mandela’s 27 years in prison gave him the time to mature from a radical to the reconciler who emerged in 1990....
...Walter Wriston, the former chairman of Citigroup, once said “countries don’t go bust”. In some respects the banker was right, countries do not go out of business and disappear like companies do....
...“How’s Walter?” I couldn’t lie to him and so I reminded him that they had passed on many years ago....
...His ANC generation has a mythical status: Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and so many more....
...American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer, went through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring late last year; Richard Desmond sold OK!’...
...Most of the best of these dealers will be exhibiting at this summer’s Masterpiece, including Agnew’s, Austin/Desmond, Dickinson, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Robin Katz....
...“These sub-sectors have different drivers and can behave differently at various stages of the cycle,” says Desmond Cheung, co-manager of the BlackRock BGF World Agriculture Fund....
...Girard Perregaux has its fabulous Seahawk II Pro that can be submerged to 3,000 metres; the Fifty Fathoms is Blancpain’s big bulky diving watch; Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Offshore is so rugged that it...
...‘Master Pieces 2008’, until August 9, Droog At Home, Amsterdam, tel: +31 (0)20-523 5059; www.droogdesign.nl 70 years of Knoll Hans Knoll, son of Walter C Knoll, known for pioneering the work of modernist...
...Julie Walters, actress. Helen Weir, group finance director, Lloyds TSB, the bank. Philip Williamson, former chief executive, Nationwide Building Society....
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