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...The result was an exhibition curated by a range of neuroscientists and philosophers — Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd and Mark Changizi....
...Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S Fisher, London, England Polymath 1,047: Nicholas Hartley, Belgium Crossword 16,314: A...
...Catering to those not stupefied already with P-creature derivatives — Alien vs Predator, Predator vs Alien, All About Predator, Mr Predator Goes to Washington (I’m improvising) — film-maker Shane Black,...
...The pneumatic bicycle tyre was an immediate success after it was put on the market by John Boyd Dunlop in 1889, and sent demand for rubber soaring....
...AIG’s share price has wilted since last May, down 14 per cent against a 14 per cent rise for the S&P 500 over the same period....
...“I don’t think the deceleration we are pointing to here has really anything to do with competitive factors in the marketplace,” said Jeffery Boyd, interim chief executive, noting the company was “holding...
...The declines take the S&P’s pull back from a peak reached in late-July to nearly 4 per cent. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.4 per cent to 4,352.64....
...Mr Boyd said the record use of margin would be a concern if valuations for the S&P were around a forward earnings multiple of 20 times, rather than the current 17 times....
...Boyd Gaming shares jumped after US hedge fund Elliott Associates disclosed it had taken a 5 per cent stake in the company....
...The initiative’s goal is for women to occupy 30 per cent of board seats at S&P 500 companies by 2020, up from 19 per cent today....
...Sebastian Faulks’s tribute to P.G....
...Emma Howard Boyd, head of the investor subcommittee at the 30 Per Cent Club, says: “There needs to be a greater focus on this issue in the US and we were delighted with the response from the chairmen that...
...After dropping 6 per cent in January, the S&P erased that loss and closed at a record peak of 1,859.45 last week....
...So the novelist William Boyd will auction at Sotheby’s a piece by Nat Tate, the fictional “forgotten” artist he invented 13 years agoand who now enjoys cult-like status....
...BWin, which shut down its US-facing websites in 2006, agreed to provide the online poker platform for MGM and Boyd’s gaming brands....
...Rapper P Diddy bought a Tracey Emin neon for £45,000 at Lehmann Maupin, while Lisson gallery celebrated selling a remarkable 14 works on the opening day alone....
...This week, a decision by S&P to upgrade bonds backed by commercial mortgages to triple A, just a week after severely cutting them from triple A, highlights the clout of ratings (and the scope to confuse...
...Shares in the company, which have fallen 40 per cent over the year, jumped by 109½p, or 20.3 per cent, to close at 650p....
...Sanders – in spite of a stage accent that suggests his Alfred P. Doolittle grew up anywhere but the western hemisphere – transforms from sooty to silken as well as his daughter....
...Gordon Boyd, finance director, said it was Drax’s choice not to proceed....
...The S&P reached an intra-day high of 1,529.24, a shade under Monday’s intraday high of 1,529.87....
...of Jonah Boyd (2004)....
...A comprehensively dependent man, with a bulging portfolio of phobias and fears, he found the catering and security he needed in a bizarre domestic threesome with Hilly and her third husband, Alastair Boyd...
...Drax Group faded 0.2 per cent to 820½p after three directors including finance director Gordon Boyd sold long-term incentive shares worth £2.88m....
...Boyd Gaming, a US group that operates casinos in Las Vegas, was another name in the frame....
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