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...With his wife Bella Lawson, he returned to London in 1988. It took him years, and many an uncertain business venture, before his Paris debts were fully paid off....
...His actions in negotiating with RBS were so tough they were described as “a drive-by shooting” by Fred Goodwin, then chief executive. Mr Kingman then moved on to become chief executive at UKFI....
...In May 1965 Fred Lee, minister of power in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, announced that the next phase of Britain’s nuclear power programme would be based on the British-designed advanced gas-cooled...
...Mr Niinami, 57, had earned a reputation as an effective operator in 12 years at the helm of Lawson, Japan’s second-biggest convenience store chain....
...“Dealing rooms are more sober places,” Mr Lawson says....
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...There’s no clear strategy,” said Fred Gale, senior economist at the US Department of Agriculture in Washington....
...Its investment banking arm, expanded during the Fred Goodwin era, has been significantly pared back....
...Fred Lawson, a 75-year-old retired builder said Thatcher “decimated British manufacturing”....
...There should be no sympathy for the treatment meted out to Mr Fred Goodwin....
...Sir, Nigel Lawson is right to remind us of the significant cultural differences between commercial and investment banking, and the management challenge faced by groups trying to engage in both (“Forget Fred...
...Nigel Lawson (‘Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal’, Comment, February 6) may object and say that this is pro-cyclical, but I think that he may be looking at the issue from more of a regulatory...
...Sir, Nigel Lawson (“Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal”, Comment, February 6) states that International Financial Reporting Standards are pro-cyclical and also allow distribution of (and bonuses...
...on the arrogant Fred Goodwin’s obsessive leadership....
...Nigel Lawson: Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal There should be no sympathy for the treatment meted out to Mr Fred Goodwin, writes Lawson, a former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer....
...Sir, Nigel Lawson’s comments (“Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal”, February 6) have clearly stirred up the accounting establishment....
...Sir, Lord Lawson makes two interesting points about the audit and accounting profession (“Forget Fred and focus on the real banking scandal”, Comment, February 6)....
...Reservations have recently been expressed in their different ways by Lord Patten (in his decision to cut the salary of the next director-general of the BBC ) and Lord Lawson (“Forget Fred and focus on the...
...He also worked as a special adviser to Nigel Lawson, when chancellor of the exchequer, and worked at McKinsey....
...Instead, he insisted the council should take into account the dissenting views of Fred Halliday, an emeritus professor of international relations who died last year....
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