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...Actor Fred Thompson, who later became a US senator, portrayed Robinson in the movie version of the book....
...Queen’s children hold vigil King Charles III, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward will hold a vigil at 7.30 tonight to mourn the death of their mother, Queen Elizabeth II....
...Or Fred Astaire tap-dancing loudly on the floor above, desperate for a tissue-paper-lined silver beaker of hot chips. The Wolseley soon became a byword for high days with me....
...Fred Astaire danced in Fox flannel because he liked the stretch....
...As the daughter of Donald Trump’s late older brother Freddie, who died an alcoholic at the age of 42, Mary Trump, along with her brother Fred Trump III, was famously cut out of their grandfather’s will....
...If this was the competition, no wonder Fred Goodwin got a knighthood while leading Royal Bank of Scotland into collapse. At least TSB is just incompetent....
...Searching for more about the crucifixion portrait of the US philanthropist Fred Holland Day, I find this caption: “In 1898, after some months of frugal eating, and wearing a crown of thorns, Fred Holland...
...Among the many insights, Harry Hurt III’s recollection of Mr Trump’s father, Fred Trump: “Donald was flying somewhere at the time, and we overheard Fred wipe some mustard off his lip, like this here, and...
...“There is going to be a healthy, emerging retirement adviser market,” says Fred Barstein, founder of The Retirement Advisor University....
...“The banks can’t do it any longer in the size and shape they used to,” said Fred Ponzo, founder of GreySpark Partners, a capital markets consultancy. “That has created a void in the market....
...That’s a direct consequence of Basel III but also the Volcker rule in the US, where if you hold a bond more than 30 days it becomes a proprietary position.”...
...Underneath, Fred Lonberg-Holm attacked his cello like a demon and doctored its tone with abstract crackles and percussive pops, while percussionist Michael Zerang clattered and clanged with a tremendous...
...“Low volumes bring low volatility and then you have a feedback loop,” says Fred Ponzo, founder of Greyspark Partners, a capital markets consultancy....
...Downing Street knows that a refusal to attend the summit this week would deal a heavy blow to that attempt....
...The ruling Conservative party greeted the news of Trudeau Junior’s victory somewhat sniffily, with Fred DeLorey, the Conservative party’s director of communications, saying: “Justin Trudeau may have a famous...
...Analysts at Goldman Sachs recently estimated that a 300 basis point increase in interest rates – more than has occurred so far – could reduce Basel III tier 1 common equity capital by a percentage point...
...“The movement is very visible,” says Fred Schiff, a negotiator at estate agent Knight Frank. More visible, certainly, than the homes’ owners, as they turn into 200mph blurs on the circuit....
...Since taking over in 2009, Mr Hester has shrunk RBS’s balance sheet by £600bn following the disastrous acquisition of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2008 by Sir Fred, which forced the bank to seek a government bail-out...
...One senior RBS executive of the day recalls how his now humbled CEO, Fred Goodwin, was outsmarted by the Spaniard. “Emilio played Fred like a Stradivarius,” says the banker....
...“If only someone had curbed Fred the Shred’s ambitions in the same way....
...Sir Fred Goodwin....
...(Fred’s comment above comes from a £1bn share buyback announced in 2006.) Basel III itself won’t be fully applied by banks until the end of this decade....
...The disgrace of bankers such as Fred Goodwin, earning a fortune from badly-run banks while investors suffer, is nothing compared to the disgrace of usury so feared by the Medicis – the banking family that...
...“You’re living the last few days of the Roman Empire,” says Fred Ponzo, founder of GreySpark Partners, which provides consulting to banks....
...David Pilling: The trials of a reluctant superpower In 1793 the Emperor Qianlong airily dismissed the emissary of King George III on the grounds that China was the self-sufficient centre of the world and...
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