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...Cook was convicted on one count of misconduct in public office between September 2004 and November 2008, but the jury acquitted him and co-defendant John Mason, an 81-year-old accountant, of more serious...
...Boone Pickens and Getty Oil and for pioneering the aggressive soliciting of new clients, rather than relying on longstanding relationships to pull in deals....
...Mr Ross’s network of contacts includes Stanley Druckenmiller, the US hedge fund manager who helped George Soros “break” the Bank of England; Scott Sheffield, T Boone Pickens and John Hess, titans of the...
...Tom Randall and John Lippert for Bloomberg wrote that Elon Musk’s promises about the Tesla truck’s range and charging times “break the law of batteries”....
...John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” as a message from an alien race (liked that one). Japanese-style second-world-war caped hats worn as space-crew safari gear: interesting if puzzling....
...At the same conference, run by SkyBridge Capital, a company that invests in hedge funds, John Boehner, the former speaker of the US House of Representatives, put forward a solution: Wall Street and its cohorts...
...David Batchelder, another Pickens associate, will assume Mr Whitworth’s duties at the hedge fund....
...John Hill, Detroit’s chief financial officer, testified on Thursday that the plan was the best way to clear crumbling buildings and expand sorely lacking public services....
...Boone Pickens has been pushing for years: use domestic natural gas as transport fuel to reduce costs, reduce emissions and diminish US dependence on oil imports, while providing a ‘bridge’ to renewables-based...
...Boone Pickens and Daniel Yergin back in 2005....
...It is the intellectual capital that exists here across the entire range of energy producers, with the exception of, maybe, nuclear,” says John Hofmeister, former president of Shell Oil and chairman of the...
...He made everyone feel valued,” says John Sorte, chief executive of Morgan Joseph, the bank at which he worked until his death....
...Boone Pickens. Wasserstein left First Boston in 1988 to form his boutique with Mr Perella, famously insisting on his own name coming before his partner’s....
...John Denham, communities secretary, said local councils should also have targets....
...john.gapper@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/johngapper Read and post comments at John Gapper’s Business Blog...
...Boone Pickens who is now talking up wind power was talking it down.” - In defence of Sorkin; an attack on shorting. By Sorkin. ___...
...The company said Mr Mills had stood down by mutual consent but some analysts saw the hand of Sir John Craven, the chairman, behind the change....
...The chief executive Peter Richardson also stepped down earlier this year and was replaced by Graham Picken, leading to more speculation about the society’s future as an independent mutual....
...According to John Stichbury, veteran producer of Jackson Estate Sauvignon Blanc, “2009 will be an absolute cracker in Marlborough – if we’re still in business.”...
...This year, Peter Richardson, 55, retired early as chief executive and was replaced, unusually, by 58-year-old Graham Picken, previously a non-executive....
...Mr Pickens failed in his attempt to win seats on the board of Koito, however, and sold his shares....
...Boone Pickens ($200.8m); Robert Day ($200m); and Eli and Edythe Broad ($176m)....
...(Pickens is 117th on Forbes’ richest Americans list, with a $3bn fortune.) That is how Texas built its oil industry....
...T Boone Pickens, founder of the BP Capital hedge fund, said he expected oil prices to stay above the $100 level in the second half of the year because of strong fundamentals....
...John Picken, chairman of the cereals committee of the National Farmers’ Union Scotland, said most grain was supplied on a long-term contract basis, so even with the welcome increase in price, barley would...
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