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...He was one of the pioneers of high-quality restaurants in an early 1990s Washington that had a well-deserved reputation for dowdy food....
...Its dowdy high street shops might be the butt of jokes on social media, but WHSmith’s share price performance is a lot smarter — delivering total returns almost 1.5 times the market....
...The term was originally coined by former EF Hutton economist Edward Yardeni in the early 1980s to describe how bond sell-offs could force the hand of central banks or governments....
...John Dowdy, a McKinsey partner, wrote this month that while defence manufacturers were so far “largely unscathed” while weathering disruptions, tough spending cuts loomed....
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..., subsequently bought by Shell (and whose family-led conglomerate would later come to own the Financial Times); David Thomas (later Lord Rhondda), a mining magnate, builds up the huge Cambrian Combine; Edward...
...(Those incurable innamorati at Alfa just couldn’t help themselves — even the dowdy Giulietta estate was launched as the Promiscua.)...
...In parallel with Alliance Trust’s hedge fund battle, Electra — a £1.7bn private equity trust — has been under attack from another activist, Edward Bramson of Sherborne Investors Management....
...This time her kit remains on, and dowdy: Franklin has eyes only for her X-ray crystallography work on DNA at King’s College, London, without which Crick and Watson over in Cambridge would almost certainly...
...Product: Tip Ton Chair Agency: Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby Territory: Worldwide Designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby saw a gap in the market for a chair that was suited to modern teaching methods....
...After the war, they influenced surrealism, the shell-shocked cityscapes of Grosz and Dix, and even Edward Hopper’s shadows and silences....
...It was the dowdy Attlee who often bested Churchill, not by vainly imitating his magically endowed opponent, but – like the good chairman he was – by sticking to the agenda....
...Elizabeth Edwards (D), 58, a lawyer and wife of former senator John Edwards. Prefers well-fitted, stylish trouser suits and brands including Dana Buchman; favours solids instead of stripes or plaid....
...Average price for a three-bedroom house: £360,000 Norwood Norwood Junction, in South Norwood, is another Victorian-era settlement that is now a bit dowdy....
...The staging – by Charles Edwards, a designer with pretensions as a director – turns Verdi’s Mantuan court into a dowdy Camorra headquarters of the 1980s, where the local capo, a greasy Latin thug sporting...
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