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...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...Ray-J, make a movie. I'm a pop-star bitch I'm next up. Yellow diamonds, sipping purple I'm Kobe. I'll leave a ... red like Ketchup, euro step on those ... like Ginobili. ....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Neiman Marcus is the latest addition to a list of private-equity backed bankruptcies in retail, which includes Toys R Us, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource as well as J Crew....
...I want to put my best foot forward and play as well as I can.”...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...He and Serena have a two-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr, who has her own Instagram and Twitter accounts, which they run....
...Discovering new drugs is getting harder, added Jennifer Taubert, executive vice-president at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the drugmaking division of J&J. “The easy diseases have largely been solved....
...Marquette is a small piece of paper headed “Hobbit Long Measures”, which begins with the approximate size of a hobbit’s toenail — half an inch — and extrapolates from that the likely size of the creature’s foot...
...Supermarket J Sainsbury, for instance, pays more than £500m each year in rates — five times its corporation tax bill....
...The number of customers setting foot inside UK stores fell 6.8 per cent in February compared with the previous year, according to data from Ipsos Retail Performance....
...R-Evolution, Dream begins with Michael Jackson Jr, caught in a shaft of light with his back to us....
...Toys R Us and Maplin yield to high street’s chill winds The UK arm of Toys R Us called in administrators on Wednesday morning after failing to find a buyer....
...Follow David J Lynch on twitter: @davidjlynch...
...One year ago, Mr Pence joined the ribbon-cutting when Haier opened a new 30,000 square foot research and development centre in Evansville....
...Enrique L Rios Jr, 25 Rios was from Brooklyn, according to his Facebook page....
...A previous version displayed a picture of John D Rockefeller Jr....
...In an interview with the Financial Times last year, J....
...Wim Parys, head of R&D for global public health at J&J, says the group is not expecting to make money from bedaquiline....
...There are faint hints in his voice of Dinosaur Jr’s J....
...At the same time, all of the big four supermarkets — Tesco, Asda, J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison, have lost market share....
...ground offensive and could be in direct combat with Islamist rebels within hours. http://on.ft.com/Y8Zhhw Workers down tools at South Africa’s Amplats Workers at three of Anglo American Platinum’s (AMSJ.J)...
...John Brady, managing director at R.J. O’Brien, says: “There is a healthy amount of scepticism about the stock market’s rally....
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