Hints and tips:
...Franklin Roosevelt did it with the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson did it with the Civil Rights Act....
...Her aim is to “give people the options to understand there’s a whole heap of stories out there . . . you just have to look for them”....
...This time Franklin Templeton is buying private equity specialist Lexington Partners for $1.75bn....
...Social distancing and heaps of redundant stock mean profitability remains a long way off....
...At various times, it played host to Benjamin Franklin and Edmund Burke, as well as monarchs and prima ballerinas....
...Vanguard’s biggest US competitor, BlackRock, and smaller rivals Franklin Templeton, JPMorgan Asset Management and Fidelity International, are among those that have not yet decided how to pay for research...
...It was 1935 before she received funding from the Federal Art Project, part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal, and later that year she headed to the Bowery — a place where, an official told her...
...Unsurprisingly, FDR and Lincoln come out top of the heap. Both were master wordsmiths, able to articulate the mission while managing Congress and moulding public opinion....
...The fall heaps more pain on asset managers whose balance sheets are already under strain because of a price war around product fees and growing regulatory costs....
...“I work on the heap system of filing,” he readily admits. “I’m at my happiest when surrounded by paper that I’m working through.” Fittingly, political biographies predominate....
...Wilson’s Presbyterian stubbornness left most of his dreams – and his famous Fourteen Points for peace – on the ash heap....
...Our dishes arrive – Moore’s a heap of steaming chicken and mine a pale plate of fish, shrimp and snow peas. The bowls of rice look small....
...Then there is Norm’s feisty wife, Angel Day, self-proclaimed queen of the rubbish heap, “smarter than a snake” and able to use the white man’s garbage to erect a home for her family....
...Russia, having shot itself in the foot with its 1930s-style escapade in Georgia, is bottom of the heap – with its stock markets forced to close temporarily last week in order to avoid a complete collapse...
...At the top of the heap, the imbalance is ridiculous....
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