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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 amount of capital required for Credit Suisse’s fixed income business is believed to have trebled under Basel III rules, forcing it to revamp its trading strategy....
...“The corporate bond market is completely dysfunctional right now,” says Fred Ponzo, founder of GreySpark Partners, a capital markets consultancy....
...The trio he presented at this gig, Survival Unit III, formed in 2006 but their two sets were steeped in the fire, focus and collective energy of an earlier time....
...“Low volumes bring low volatility and then you have a feedback loop,” says Fred Ponzo, founder of Greyspark Partners, a capital markets consultancy....
...Fred Carver, the campaign director at the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice pressure group, said: “[Mr Cameron’s threat] is good, but it is also about time....
...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...
...“The one thing that has changed is the return of volatility,” said Fred Ponzo, managing partner of GreySpark Partners, a capital markets consultancy. “Prices are depreciating....
...Built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the late Prince Rainier III’s energetic plans to expand his tiny state, this costly reclamation programme eventually provided an extra 0.35sq km of habitable land....
...Risk weighted assets, under Basel III regulatory definitions, will be shrunk to £150bn from £225bn under the restruring plan....
...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....
...Its risk weighted assets will also shrink – from £225bn to £150bn under Basel III regulatory definitions....
...(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 same thing happened in 13th- and 14th-century Florence to the Bardi and Peruzzi banks, which collapsed in the 1340s when Edward III reneged on his debts....
...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...
...“You’re living the last few days of the Roman Empire,” says Fred Ponzo, founder of GreySpark Partners, which provides consulting to banks....
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