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...When George W Bush appointed him to the same role in 2000, Rumsfeld made history by having been both the youngest and oldest Pentagon chief — and the only person to hold the role twice....
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...The last time it appointed an ideologue — George W Bush’s misguided choice of former deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz — it ended in disaster....
...Explosively dysfunctional campus couple George (Vin Knight) and Martha (Annie McNamara) are still very drunk and mean....
...In 1992 he was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. Never a technical economist, Henderson brought to the discipline the now largely lost virtues of rigour and lucidity in English....
...Two exceptions were Dwight Eisenhower, who had been commander of US forces in Europe, and George H W Bush, who had been head of the CIA....
...GAM's Paul McNamara disagrees. With a current account deficit, he says, you need capital to fund it. We wrote recently that Erdogan can't sidestep the IMF for long....
...Late-night drinking is not as easy as you might think in Dublin, but Izakaya on George’s Street is basement and beer heaven....
...“The finance sector needs to take up the standards of the big traders and food producers,” said Richard George, forests campaigner at Greenpeace....
...The real data to watch relate to credit, not the renminbi, says Mr McNamara....
...Paul McNamara, an emerging-markets debt portfolio manager at GAM in London, said Turkish markets are “really under the gun”....
...Just a week after chancellor George Osborne unveiled his readiness to return Royal Bank of Scotland to the private sector, the lender has been hit by an IT glitch in a sign that technology problems could...
...George McNamara, head of policy and public affairs at the Alzheimer’s Society: An LPA allows a person to appoint someone to make certain decisions on their behalf....
...“The government wants to compromise,” says Paul McNamara, emerging markets investment director at GAM....
...Representing the Nouveaux Réalistes is Niki de Saint-Phalle, with two 1960s “Tir-Assemblages” (Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois)....
...“High street businesses need to change how they interact with their customer base,” says George McNamara, head of policy and public affairs at the Alzheimer’s Society....
...It was the tens of thousands of memos written by George W Bush’s defence secretary that first intrigued Morris....
...George W. Bush’s defence secretary unleashed more fissile polysyllables in the direction of the enemy than any war executive in history. Rumsfeld manned up the word “mandarin”....
...Am ambitious conversion project, which recently won approval, is Fife Capital Group’s A$300m, 32-storey residential tower and retail development on George Street in the heart of the CBD....
...After one medium-light toasting of a US defence secretary – Robert McNamara in The Fog of War – here is another. Rumsfeld, we know, helped George Bush Jr invade Iraq....
...JFK never really faced his generals down but was grateful that Robert McNamara, his secretary of defence, kept them in check....
...The best past World Bank presidents have been people experienced in finance and economics, such as Lewis Preston, James Wolfensohn and George Woods; used to running large organisations, such as Robert McNamara...
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