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...“When people came to my bar, they’d say, ‘I don’t like beer.’ Then they’d try my beers and say, ‘This is wonderful, what is it?’ And I’d say, ‘It’s a fucking beer!’”...
...Adam Smith, a former senior official at Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said Mr Deripaska’s chances of success were slight, given the relatively low evidentiary bar for sanctions and the use...
...Until the election, the former FEC chairman wore his hair over his ears and moonlighted as a guitarist with a rock band in Maryland beach bars....
...Standing alongside the Democratic nominee, Mr Trump added that, if he were in charge of law enforcement, “you’d be in jail”....
...To their alarm they discovered that no fewer than 12m — yes 12m — PCs were infected, according to Tom Burt, the company’s deputy general counsel....
...The bar for success for Republican responses to State of the Union speeches has been set low following previous performances. Ms Ernst put in a solid performance free of mistakes....
...They assembled at a building that is a veritable fortress in lower Manhattan: 22 storeys of sandstone, on top of vaults that contain 6,700 tons of gold, protected by iron bars and shotgun-wielding police...
...“I’d like to hear how the United States will reduce its deficits.”...
...As industry observer Raju Patel of Fulcrium, a specialist strategy consultancy, puts it: “If Marvin Bower were alive today and this [scandal] happened, he’d have a heart attack.”...
...Finally, Mr O’Connor could not resist heading his note on the departure of Paul Stobart, Sage’s northern European chief executive, as D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...Dave Camp, the most senior Republican on the ways and means committee, continued to counsel caution last week....
...Federal Reserve lawyers, led by chief counsel Scott Alvarez, scurried around, flicking hurriedly through new versions of texts....
...In 1932, with the US in the midst of the Great Depression, the Sicilian-born chief counsel to the Senate banking committee became a household name thanks to his forceful cross-examination of John Pierpont...
...The woman at the John Lewis nail bar said she’d never known acrylics to be so tenacious. They clung on like limpets in a chemical rockpool. … The lakeside exercise session did me good....
...“He has raised the ante, raised the bar on governance,” says one Washington-based development expert. “That is a good thing, but he has to meet the bar he set.”...
...Douglas Scheidt, chief counsel at the SEC’s division of investment management, said the new rule was a test of investor sophistication, not merely net worth....
...Kennedy’s speechwriter, special counsel and friend....
...During many a night in London, as the dinner hour rolls by, I find myself thinking about a young Englishwoman I met years ago in Washington, D.C. It was a chance encounter....
...of a big Texas law firm, and the first woman president of the State Bar of Texas....
...That role is unlikely to bar Mr Gonzales, 49, from becoming the first Hispanic attorney general in US history....
...He served as general counsel and secretary of state to Mr Bush when the president was governor of Texas....
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