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...In “Nostalgie”, a former pop singer turned IT consultant is invited to play a one-off show in Belfast by veterans of a paramilitary battalion who have adopted one of his old B-sides as their anthem....
...He had gained admission despite middling A-level grades (a B in history, a C in French). Distracted by royal duties, he graduated with a lower second....
...Co-chaired by Hank Paulson (pictured), the former Republican Treasury secretary and Erskine Bowles, the former Democratic White House chief of staff, the report underlines the severity of climate change...
...Facebook has lost a flurry of longtime directors recently, with Reed Hastings, Netflix chief executive, Erskine Bowles, a Democratic political figure, and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chief executive of the Gates...
...In addition to Ms Desmond-Hellmann; Reed Hastings, Netflix’s chief executive; Erskine Bowles, Democratic political figure; and Kenneth Chenault, former American Express chief executive, have all stood down...
...Mr Houston’s appointment comes after two longstanding directors, Reed Hastings, Netflix chief executive, and Erskine Bowles, a Democratic political figure, stepped down from the board in April, while Peggy...
...Two longstanding directors, Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings and Democratic political figure Erskine Bowles, are to leave the board in May while PayPal executive Peggy Alford has been nominated to join...
...Almost three-quarters of its output is either natural gas or is transformed into liquefied natural gas, with oil making up 42,000 b/d of its output....
...The other directors are Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix; Kenneth Chenault, former chief executive of American Express; and Erskine Bowles, an investment banker and a former White House chief of...
...The bipartisan Simpson-Bowles budget commission concluded that the federal government needed a revenue base equal to 21 per cent of gross domestic product....
...Yet Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles – the retired politicians who lead the “fix the debt” movement – remain as unwavering as before....
...Bowles – will bring more energy to tax reform than has been the case until now....
...In reality, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are not as far off from Mr Luce as he implies....
...America’s leading deficit reduction cheerleaders – Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles – are set to release details of a $2.5tn plan to curb America’s long-term debt, aiming to build on the slightly improved...
...Erskine Bowles, one of the most prominent US fiscal hawks, on Friday said excessive debt was an “enormous risk factor” for governments, defending the case for aggressive deficit reduction after the findings...
...Alan Simpson, the folksy, outspoken former Republican senator from Wyoming, has a favourite quip about the impact of the 2010 fiscal commission he co-chaired with Erskine Bowles, a former Democratic White...
...They include venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Netflix chief Reed Hastings, as well as Erskine Bowles, the president of the University of North Carolina....
...Mr Obama’s dire message came as Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the president’s 2010 bipartisan debt commission, presented a revised plan to avert the automatic cuts with $2.4tn in additional...
...The celebrated Dorset-born chef is currently upcycling a B&B in Lyme Regis for a mid-April relaunch....
...However, it is only half of the amount recommended by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the widely respected bipartisan duo whose analyses frame the debate on the national debt....
...There could also be a renewed push by corporate chiefs to fund Fix the Debt, the bipartisan campaign spearheaded by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the 2010 fiscal commission....
...Which makes the latest intervention from Alan Simpson, the co-keeper of the nation’s fiscal conscience, along with Erskine Bowles, all the more enjoyable....
...The Republican proposal, which is closely based on a 2011 plan by Erskine Bowles, aims to reduce the US deficit by $4.6tn in a decade (Bloomberg)....
...Fix the Debt, a group co-founded by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the bipartisan pair that chaired Mr Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission, pushed back forcefully against the CAP’s conclusions....
...Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of Mr Obama’s 2010 bipartisan fiscal commission, have also suggested big changes to the deduction, converting it to a 12 per cent tax credit that would be less...
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