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...In the autumn of 1964, in the midst of a general election campaign that would bring Harold Wilson’s Labour party to power by promising a Britain forged in the “white heat” of the “scientific revolution”,...
...Harold McGee, food science writer, author of Nose Dive and keen observer of tasting notes, wrote to me recently: “Now all the good stuff seems to be ‘expressive’ and ‘precise’ and ‘linear’....
...At Cambridge he was taught by a visiting Milton Friedman, Joan Robinson and, most importantly, Harry Johnson....
...Harold James, professor of history at Princeton, has even written a gloomy article about “Late Soviet America”. Yet modern China has weak foundations, too....
...Sassoon quotes the great Cambridge economist (and admirer of Mao) Joan Robinson: “Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.”...
...British Leyland had been nationalised by Harold Wilson’s Labour government in 1975 with the South African Sir Michael Edwardes drafted in two years later to turn round the company’s fortunes after a period...
...John O’Byrne Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland...
...Cheron Cowan, a certified sommelier working at Harold’s Meat + Three in New York, explained how, when training younger white male staff members, she felt it necessary to state explicitly to guests that she...
...She was influenced by the painterly approach of Gertrude Jekyll and the naturalistic style of William Robinson. But when at the age of 51 her marriage foundered, she faced financial ruin....
...Despite this, TomTom still accounts for roughly 80 per cent of traffic management systems, according to chief executive Harold Goddijn....
...Bill Robinson, a former Treasury economist, thought he had “died and gone to heaven”. Like Britain itself, many saw the union in terms of its economic merits rather than as a historic calling....
...Having been practically bought up on skis, he came to know the editor of The Sunday Times, Harold Evans, when he was in his ski-mad period....
...In a bizarre moment during the rioting a Church of Ireland bishop, Harold Miller, invited several youths into a local church for tea and biscuits following a police charge. “We aren’t stopping....
...“Comedy of menace” was the celebrated phrase created by the critic Irving Wardle to describe Harold Pinter’s passive aggressive plays and one could apply the same words to British writer/director Ben Wheatley...
...Harold Wilson was already committed to keeping Britain out of Vietnam....
...It’s hardly a new subject of course – Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 – but in the context of the “always-on” digital world, it feels more relevant than ever....
...In an FT interview, Harold “Terry” McGraw III, chairman and chief executive, said that global rating agencies S&P, Moody’s and Fitch were being unfairly targeted by politicians and competitors around the...
...In case you missed these stories: Bear Stearns name set for scrapheap More than 86 years after Joseph Bear, Robert Stearns, and Harold Mayer pooled $500,000 in capital and founded an equity trading house...
...Giancarlo Corsetti and Harold James: Why Europe needs an EMF Like every good tragedy, the current Greek crisis has its origins in events and decisions long past, write Corsetti, Pierre Werner professor at...
...TomTom will raise €359m through a rights issue in which its four founders, includingCEO Harold Goddijn, will take up their rights in full and contribute €169m....
...In 1941, John Hunt married Magdalen Robinson, daughter of Lord Robinson. They had a daughter, who predeceased him, and two sons....
...The euro’s success could be its downfall It is not easy being the world’s main currency, and the euro is showing all the signs of strain that comes from being the new international key currency, writes Harold...
...The “joy of the Robinson house”, which was marred only by Mr Robinson’s multiple sclerosis, was part of Michelle’s appeal to the peripatetic, largely fatherless, biracial Barack....
...Alphaville, the financial blogging website owned by the Financial Times, has been awarded the inaugural online journalism prize at this year’s Harold Wincott Awards....
...As Harold Macmillan’s information minister, or prototype spin doctor, Deedes emerged with scant credit from the Profumo affair, and was implicated in the conspiracy to foist Alec Douglas-Home on the Conservative...
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