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...The official line was that he’d died of a heart attack but, 80 years on, the creators of The Butterfly King aren’t buying it and nor are his descendants....
...“If we had anything to update on, we’d be updating on it,” he curtly told reporters. Instead, the company wanted to direct attention towards its internal restructuring effort....
...“In these circumstances we’d buy a passive strategy. We avoid these funds completely.”...
...Grow Dat’s founder Johanna Gilligan is entrepreneurial....
...@DPemb Letter in response to this article By all means buy old cars but expect to lose money / From John Gilligan...
...I’d like to think I brought up my children well. I’d like to think this generation of kids are much nicer to their parents than we were....
...Those “guys in the middle of the desert”, shooting Vince Gilligan’s brilliantly perverse tale of a chemistry teacher turned crystal meth dealer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are now all famous; Cranston, as...
...Gavyn Davies, who was ousted as chairman of the BBC governors after the “Gilligan affair” in 2004, and who writes for the FT, said: “If I were chairman, what I’d want to ask now is to do with the management...
...Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, as large pharma groups see “increasing opportunities to make selective acquisitions of specialist companies to further progress, as opposed to relying entirely on the R&D...
...In July 2003, he became the first journalist to name David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan’s source for a BBC report on a dossier about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, leading to his subsequent appearance...
...“We’d be keen to see them do something about it,” said Mick Gilligan at Killik, a shareholder. “There’ve been a number of investors who’ve made the case to them and the reply was just a fob off.”...
...Plimpton grumbled but agreed and upon his return announced I had been right, though Jay McInerney, with whom he’d gone to pitch the project, had gone one better....
...He is, I’d say, about 80 per cent joking. In the nature of TV, he is employed because of his Clooneyesque looks as well as his skill....
...“In most cases [activism] is in the interests of shareholders,” says Mick Gilligan, analyst at Killik & Co, the brokers....
...“If it had been me, I’d have had an inquiry and kicked it all into the long grass,” says Gilligan. “But Ken was blinded to the truth of the story by his hatred for the Standard and me....
...If you happen to be with one, I’d say move with them.”...
...But if he’d taken the other position, if he’d said, “I can’t go along with this,” would you also have supported him? “Yeah, probably …Because on that one, I could see it both ways, and so could he....
...Richard Philbin, director of funds of funds at F&C, says if you’ve a choice between a closed-end fund at a premium and an equivalent open-ended version, you’d be foolish to buy the investment trust....
...If I’d known about the dangers involved in the TA, I’d have joined the Sealed Knot. Captain: What about the work you were doing defending you country?...
...“After the year and a half I’d had, I wanted something different. We had been through an extremely difficult period. It was right for me personally, and for the division, to have a change....
...France sent 9,000 troops to Normandy in preparation for the sixtieth anniversary of D-day; no-fly and maritime exclusion zones were declared and surface-to-air missiles deployed along the coast....
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