Hints and tips:
...Floyd bought cigarettes using a $20 bill that a clerk thought could be counterfeit. The store manager asked another clerk to call the police....
...” – Somewhat relatedly: Real estate CEO admits he stole $1.6M to pay for coke and strippers. – Further watching, Norges Bank launches new bank notes in style....
...Follow David J Lynch on twitter: @davidjlynch...
...“That saves us £1,000,” he says....
...“Sometimes I do try and defy it by stopping at 1.59 but I just can’t.”...
...Now 66, Lord Magan cheerfully recalls “starting in the City at 18 as a snivelling articled clerk”....
...According to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, J Sainsbury has reaped a return of £27.25 ($44.67) for every £1 it spent on ads starring Jamie Oliver, the celebrity chef and long-time brand ambassador...
...Mr Catlin’s specialty insurance and reinsurance company set out with capital of just £25,000 but is now worth about £1.4bn ($2.1bn, €1.65bn), and Catlin’s Lloyd’s business is now the largest underwriter...
...J....
...I had stumbled into the wholesale section and couldn’t take home 500 units, but for $1,000 all those coats sure seemed like a deal for someone with a very big suitcase....
...In 1965 he became a junior export clerk in an air freight firm....
...At the time he was the systems manager for J. Lyons and Company, then Britain’s biggest caterer....
...Patterson, a former ad executive whose books earned $50m in the past year alone – only J.K. Rowling made more – left his third agent for Barnett early last year....
...I do not stray down “the private path of Mrs J.F....
...Imagine Clerks meshed with a “100 best movies” TV countdown show....
...to, in the immortal word of the original J.P....
...Prizes of up to ₤500 were commonplace, but the biggest-ever was put up by J....
...Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner showed dozens of examples of how statistical analysis of databases can reveal the secret levers of causation....
...It’s not like I am J.D. Salinger, sitting in my house trying to remember how people talked in college back then.”...
...It does not quite live up to the promise of the author’s previous novels - The Opium Clerk and The Miniaturist - but is imaginative and intriguing all the same....
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