Hints and tips:
...The Haldane was occupied by successive Secretaries of State for War, not just Churchill, but Kitchener, Lloyd George, Eden, Profumo and more....
...Health workers took the test swabs in Tauranga from the crew of the 74,000-ton Rio De La Plata as part of the requirements for entry for the vessel to Napier - its next scheduled stop....
...The Environment Secretary George Eustice has made a strong case that gene editing can make crops more resilient to pests and climate change, and produce more nutritious food....
...(I had to look them up: they are George IV and generals Charles Napier and Henry Havelock, who both served in India.)...
...In a recent reprint of Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, law professor Russell Napier writes that there’s a good reason the 1841 classic is still in circulation:...
...But the Salt Lake Tribune’s Ms Napier-Pearce was not one of them....
...But it is still worth looking at the new edition if only for the warning it contains from Mr Napier....
...Blaise Pascal and George Bernard Shaw struggle to match the Spartans for brevity (Letters, August 29)....
...Jason Napier, head of European Banks Research at UBS, said “plans to grow revenues at stable margins, cut costs and generate surplus capital should reassure investor concerns”....
...One was at Edinburgh Napier University, which stands on the site of Craiglockhart, a former hospital for “shell shocked” officers including, famously, the war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon....
...We just don’t have precedents for going into a recession with interest rates at this level and inflation so low,” says Mr Napier....
...So not a great start and it’s a sign that whatever market-stabilising powers UK chancellor George Osborne once had have been diminished....
...George Culmer, chief financial officer, said the bank was “ahead of plan” on its three-year cost-cutting strategy, which was based on interest rate expectations in 2014....
...The results come only a few weeks after chancellor George Osborne postponed a discounted share sale to the general public in the spring, blaming “turbulent markets”....
...Tireless lobbying by manager Simon Napier-Bell (who cunningly briefed against rival candidates Queen) had secured the gig for George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley....
...George Buckley, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank, pointed out that core inflation — a measure that strips out volatile energy and food prices — also softened to 1 per cent from 1.2 per cent in July, and...
...Even UK chancellor George Osborne seems full of admiration, saying: “She has provided strong and stable leadership at Santander UK through a vital period for the UK economy....
...Berkeley Homes has recently launched the latest phase of its huge Napier development near Acton Main Line station, at which Crossrail will stop. Three-bedroom houses here cost from £950,000....
...Masa runs us through the other highlights from speakers such as Jim Chanos, John Armitage and Russell Napier....
...Once more, the solemn grey statues of King George IV and Generals Napier and Havelock, stoic observers in one of central London’s liveliest public spaces, will watch as a sprightly newcomer attracts all...
...In a rehearsal room at the Urdang Studios on London’s Rosebery Avenue, the show’s band are belting out “Metal Guru” and George Maguire, the actor playing Bolan, is getting his moves down pat....
...For example, Jim Rogers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, argues that the overriding story of the next century is of China’s emergence from a 400-year slump....
...John Currie, director of the Scottish Energy Centre at Edinburgh Napier University, says his institution introduced an energy engineering course in 1980....
...George Osborne, the British chancellor, said on Thursday night he had called Mr Hayward at Mr Cameron’s request....
...by the North Asian system, we have passed the zenith of the free market system, writes Napier, CLSA strategist and author of Anatomy of The Bear....
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