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...“If you’re a small operator . . . and you go to the bank with a two- or three-year payout on equipment and livestock and you’ve got a one-year contract, that’s a tough sell to a banker,” said JR Howard,...
...Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler has recently revived its archival Brussels Weave carpets. At Castle Howard, decorator Remy Renzullo installed its pretty, floral Heartsease pattern in one of the bedrooms....
...“There’s a piece of roof we’d like to do,” he says. “It’s a whole big premises; it needs looking after.”...
...But when we’d ask her about her politics she’d just start a sort of rhetorical diatribe that went right over our heads....
...After college he attended law school at Washington’s Howard University, the elite black educational institution that would produce several star civil-rights lawyers....
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
...Howard Davies: I expect little or no change....
...But, according to English Heritage’s Spencer, while a blue plaque adds cultural capital to a property in terms of real financial value, “you’d be better off modernising a bathroom”....
...Jordan was born in the Georgian capital just six years after another eminent Atlantan, Dr Martin Luther King Jr....
...It’s hard to imagine that as First Dude he’d be picking out colour schemes....
...and partners, central and eastern Europe, Microsoft 54 Crawford Prentice , head of service recovery UK, HSBC 55 Bob Annibale , global director of community development and inclusive finance, Citi 56 JR...
...Susan Sarandon and Princess Margaret among a glossy cast of thousands; these friendships are offset against some of his equally famous rivalries, with Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and William F Buckley, Jr...
...Mr Feige cast Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man in the first film produced by Marvel as a standalone studio (shortly before it was snapped up by Disney)....
...By financing the construction of Rockefeller Center during the worst years of the Great Depression, John D Rockefeller Jr was not just embarking on what would become the defining business venture of his...
...Rufus Bonds Jr plays Porgy, the disabled beggar who loves Bess, played here by Nicola Hughes, and tries to save her from her troubled past....
...Christopher Fowler …………………………………………………………….....
...Ronald Reagan in November 1983 issued that warning in a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr....
...Rather than a Twain, he became the literary Howard Hughes, which as with the tycoon only stirred up yet more interest....
...And I told him that if he wrote you a letter I’d give it to you, and I have. But I had a conversation with little David, Jr. and David, Sr. His family has been struggling with the economy....
...But weighing 350lbs never deterred William Howard Taft, whose swing, according to Don van Natta Jr, author of Hail to the Cheats, “resembled a sumo wrestler trying to swat a gnat”....
...I see Jerry Brown, former California governor, whom I haven’t seen in years, and Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard....
...Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Under the Sea (Howard Hall) Hotel for Dogs (Thor Freudenthal) F*ck (Steve Anderson) Notorious (George Tillman Jr) Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel) Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a...
...With a budget of $150m and an A-list cast of Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard, the film represents a significant moment for Marvel....
...Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive officer, Sony • Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?...
...● The Last Tycoons, William D. Cohan’s no-holds-barred account of the rise of Lazard Frères, the investment bank. ● Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D....
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