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...When Tobias Vernon was studying history of art at Cambridge, a simple, sunny sketch of a fishing trawler by the St Ives artist Bryan Pearce hung in his room....
...“Medium atomic weights are available . . . ” A stentorian voiceover introduces Sapphire and Steel, Peter J Hammond’s shortlived television series starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as psychic agents...
...Walmart had planned to sell Asda to its rival J Sainsbury, but competition regulators blocked the deal this year....
...Walmart shares also rose after J Sainsbury of the UK struck a deal to take over the US group’s Asda subsidiary....
...The strong global economy also has its downside, said Brian Pearce, Iata’s chief economist....
...Insanity. pic.twitter.com/stev2G6v4b— Ryan J....
...Eudon Choi – like J. JS Lee – is another Korean-born designer making waves....
...Nick Pearce, who headed Gordon Brown’s policy unit when Heywood was chief of staff and now runs the Institute for Public Policy Research, says: “He will always be powerful in any Number 10....
...Tesco was 1.9 per cent lower at 364p and J Sainsbury slid 2.3 per cent to 274½p....
...“[The] statement . . . should allay some fears [about] further acquisitions and the confirmation that there will be no non-UK deals within [Resolution] also addresses investor concerns,” said James Pearce...
...J&J had been widely reported this year to have considered an offer for S&N, though analysts said the combination with Synthes looked like a much more straightforward transaction....
...“Given further uncertainty due to Solvency II and the Retail Distribution Review, we expect much-needed UK life consolidation to become even more overdue during 2011,” James Pearce, analyst at UBS, said...
...“There is only a handful of specialist reinsurers so it’s a finite pool of capital, which I imagine at some point will constrain the market,” says Mr Pearce....
...James Pearce, analyst at Cazenove, said that the 45p valuation in the exchange offer did not look particularly generous, but that the second element “arguably looks more generous than the first”....
...James Pearce at Cazenove said risks remained with the company....
...Tom Pearce, executive director at Rothesay Life, the specialist pensions unit of Goldman Sachs, reckons such industrial packaging is a long way off....
...“It is probably a truism and a feature of all markets that when people are trying to get in and build a presence they may price for that,” says Tom Pearce, executive director at Goldman’s Rothesay....
...“Departing CEO Mark Tucker appears to be leaving the Pru in good shape,” said James Pearce, at JPMorgan Cazenove, an analyst who has been critical of the company in the past....
...Pearce puts his hopes in small businesses, which have increased in number by a third over the past decade....
...J McNeill, Glasgow Matthew Vincent: It could do....
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