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...The “C Hopson” who used an engraved silver thimble is long gone, but the fact of her existence is vivid in my mind whenever I darn anything....
...Fantasia was last week downgraded to triple C by S&P, which noted “heightened execution risk on repayment” in relation to the bond due on Monday....
...Capping off the list are Christiana Riley, head of Deutsche Bank Americas, Paul Taubman, founder, chairman and CEO of PJT Partners, Dwight Scott, president of GSO Capital Partners and David Marcus, head...
...These days, an increasing number of them rely instead on Dwight Scott....
...Most CLOs promise to include only a limited amount of triple C-rated debt (the next rung down). If a recession leads to widespread downgrades, forced selling would flood the market....
...“[CLOs] begin with a ‘C’ and end with an ‘O’,” says one investor in the article, evoking the collateralised debt obligations, packed with mortgages, which brought the world to the brink of ruin a decade...
...Megan Greene and Dwight Scott answer the question on everyone’s lips: Do leveraged loans pose a threat to the US economy?...
...Dwight D Eisenhower left the White House in 1961 cautioning against the designs of the military-industrial complex assembled to confront the Soviet Union....
...As long ago as 1952 Dwight Eisenhower chafed at British attempts to derail Franco-German reconciliation. America’s closest ally, Eisenhower wrote in his diary, was “living in the past”....
...Protests were so large that Tokyo was deemed unsafe for the planned visit of US President Dwight Eisenhower. A few months after the security treaty was acrimoniously ratified, Kishi resigned....
...One of the original engines of Silicon Valley’s creativity, she argues, was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), founded by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 following the alarm caused...
...Dwight Eisenhower’s second term involved scandal that forced the resignation of his chief of staff and, more importantly, a growing sense that the country was suffering from a stifling complacency....
...But for more than 30 years, from Dwight Eisenhower to George H W Bush, lobbying in the nation’s capital was embodied in one perfect persona....
...In 1959, Vice-President Richard Nixon also met with Fidel in Washington DC shortly after the Cuban had seized power (then-president Dwight Eisenhower had cannily arranged to be out of town)....
...On the same day, January 17, in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower left office with a now famous speech warning against the acquisition of “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial...
...As an indication of the positive legacy that will follow Mr Flaherty, Ontario’s former finance minister Dwight Duncan, a member of the province’s Liberal Party, praised Mr Flaherty’s efforts two days ago...
...From Prof Richard C Thornton....
...Mr Galston says the current debate harks back to the dispute in the early 1950s between Dwight Eisenhower and the isolationist senator Robert Taft....
...or Dwight Eisenhower (low-key and underestimated)? The chatter gripping Washington these days, however, is the comparison with one president that Mr Obama is unlike, Lyndon Johnson....
...A memorial to Dwight Eisenhower designed by Frank Gehry has put the famed architect in the crosshairs of a Tea Party congressman and the former president’s own family, who decry it as insufficiently austere...
...However, FDR, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, who might have been undone by the Iran-Contra farce, left office widely revered....
...With the exception of a handful of former generals, such as Dwight Eisenhower or Colin Powell, retired public figures don’t sustain numbers like this....
...In a perceptive piece, Peter Beinart compares him to Dwight Eisenhower, and quotes from a Newsweek interview in which Hagel – speaking in 2002 of the Iraq-war hawks – said: “Most of those who who want to...
...Dwight MacDonald wrote a scathing indictment of Hutchins and his co-editor, Mortimer Adler, in The New Yorker, accusing them of profiteering via the sale of the Britannica set....
...The federal budget should be a tool to encourage national investment, as it was when Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana and when Dwight Eisenhower built our super- highways....
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