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...The UK was still importing more than it was exporting, and the Labour government of Harold Wilson was forced to devalue from $2.80 to $2.40 in November 1967....
.... ★★★★☆ To August 20, almeida.co.uk The Seagull Harold Pinter Theatre, London Chekhov was the great master of “if only”....
...Round on the Links The link was ancient and historic peoples Maya Angelou Phoenician (Phoenix) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Norman Lamont Roman Abramovich Aztec Camera Angle Viking Jute Harold...
...Labour chancellors such as Callaghan, Denis Healey and Brown appear to get an easier ride than their Conservative peers, such as Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont and George Osborne....
...Republican) Date of accusation December 8 Accusation Making inappropriate advances towards women who worked in his office Response Via a spokesperson, denied the allegations Consequence Resigned Harold...
...The Conservative party’s attachment to Europe — it had been Harold Macmillan who first proposed EU membership and Edward Heath who oversaw entry — was broken....
...Yet Philip Stephens shows that even in 1952 Harold Macmillan called for closer links to Europe....
...Those who believe that Beckett’s plays are routinely devoid of human empathy should watch recordings of the Krapp’s of, say, John Hurt or the late Harold Pinter before encountering Wilson’s performance....
...Harold Wilson, the Labour leader, attacked the measures as “totally unfair”, while rail workers took to the streets to protest....
...Opposition leader Harold Wilson quipped that the Tories must have messed up their timing....
...The Daily Express called it the “Lamont Tax Time Bomb”....
...Harold Thompson, analyst at the investment bank, reckons that each £1bn spent can add 2-3 per cent to Reckitt’s growth in earnings per share....
...Harold Macmillan’s firing of Selwyn Lloyd, his chancellor, and a third of the cabinet in 1962 did not restore his fortunes....
...spite of suspicions that elements within Pakistan’s military harboured bin Laden, Mrs Clinton said there was no evidence of senior Pakistani officials knowing about the al-Qaeda leader’s residence in the garrison...
...The missile attack on Friday is the first since the shooting of Osama bin Laden in a US helicopter-borne raid on his refuge in a garrison city, 50km from Islamabad, earlier this week....
...Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, ordered army chiefs on Monday to explain to parliament the intelligence and military failures surrounding the US raid on bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, a garrison...
...The killing of Osama bin Laden in a garrison city home to Pakistan’s top army staff college has posed embarrassing questions for the country’s military leadership....
...When Osama bin Laden chose as his refuge the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad, he deployed one of the oldest tricks in the book of subterfuge....
...The Arunachal Scouts was raised formally in Shillong, the Assamese garrison city, this week to defend the north-eastern state, which borders China....
...Landlords do not always have it easy, as Norman Lamont found out the hard way....
...I remember asking as an eight-year-old whether Harold Macmillan had won or not in 1959....
...The architects of inflation targeting – Norman Lamont, the chancellor between 1990 and 1993, and Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor – had hoped this difficult history would be consigned to the past...
...Maintaining good relations was not always so easy with Labour’s Harold Wilson, who was becoming paranoid – perhaps the first sign of his later mental disorder....
...Conservative ministers did not take seriously the long-term projections, which were at the mercy of what Harold Macmillan called “events”....
...Harold Garrison, chairman of HDG Mansur, said the company was targeting a main listing in Dubai with global depositary receipts in London because both markets had expressed the intention tobecome international...
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