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...Amanda Benson Studio Gris vase, POA Giorgio Armani wool vest, £740, and silk twill shirt, £1,300. Suzanne Kalan gold, opal and diamond ring, £8,080, harrods.com....
...Homages to Victorian and arts-and-crafts design are everywhere; stained glass, trompe l’oeil, gleaming wood panelling and mouldings, Benson lamps, neoclassical vases, antiques and replicas of period furnishings...
...He has Benson’s syndrome, a variant of Alzheimer’s that claims the sight....
...In the opening couple of minutes of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Samuel L Jackson pours himself a whisky and picks up a revolver....
...When building work was stopped it was just a few weeks from completion, Benson says....
...Matthew Benson has joined Silver Lake as a managing director and head of communications after two decades at Sard Verbinnen....
...During Tim’s tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae has been profitable on an annual basis, paid the Treasury approximately $167 billion in dividends, and reduced risk to taxpayers,” Egbert L.J....
...Stuffy broking and merchant banking partnerships, where promotion depended on a candidate’s DNA rather than on his P&L, were bought out by foreign banks, most of them from the US....
...DD Altria Although it may not be a household name, tobacco company Altria owns a 26.6 per cent stake in SABMiller and some of the best-selling cigarette brands — including Marlboro, L&M and Benson & Hedges...
...Babson Trustee Craig Benson will lead the search committee for the Prof Schlesinger’s replacement. www.babson.edu...
...Gallaher, whose brands include Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut, was seen to be a good strategic fit for JT, which had little presence in the UK and Europe....
...When I left Kleinwort Benson in 1987, I felt an invigorating sense of independence and an unleashing of energy....
...Sales of Winston, its discount cigarette brand, have tripled between 2000 to 2007 to overtake PMI’s L&M as the world’s second-largest cigarette brand....
...Mr Valet is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration, and France’s society of financial analysts....
...L’Escalier at Tower Hill is an intimate, family-owned Anglo-French restaurant. La Nautique overlooks the St Peter Port marina and specialises in local seafood....
...In it, she said she had some of her money at Kleinwort Benson but was unclear about exactly how much – ”probably a few million”....
...Donald Benson, Johannesburg, South Africa David Bowers: In our view, financial markets have become complacent about leverage....
...The juxtaposition of past and future appealed to Robert Taylor, chief executive of Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, sponsor of the exhibition that opens on July 1....
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