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...You report (FT Weekend, October 2) that a review of the NHS is to be led by a former soldier, Sir Gordon Messenger....
...Greensill Capital, the collapsed finance company, lent heavily to Gupta’s companies and now its administrators are pursuing him for billions of pounds....
...Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the EU, is expected to tell Congress this week that he couldn’t verify the US president’s claim of “no quid pro quo’s” with Ukraine. The Trumpist diplomat in a fix....
...And it bribed university sports coaches and administrators to designate applicants as student-athletes, improving their chances of admission....
...It coached students to claim medical disabilities, allowing them extra time to take entrance tests, and then steered them to test facilities in Houston and Hollywood where it had bribed the staff....
...“OK, so, who we are — what we do is help the wealthiest families in the US get their kids into school,” Mr Singer told one prospective client, Gordon Caplan, the co-chairman of the prominent US law firm...
...There’s also a rich platter of amenities — fitness clubs, hip restaurants and concierge medical care, to name a few — designed for a younger generation....
...Broker Panmure Gordon forecasts pre-tax profits of £2.7m in the year to June — slightly down on last year....
...“Perhaps an even bigger difference is that in China, services account for only 30 per cent of spending versus 70 per cent in Japan and the US,” says Gordon Orr of McKinsey....
...Because remember, if a bank can go into administration, the administrator has a legal responsibility to freeze everything while he finds out what’s going on, and Northern Rock or any other bank has lost...
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