Hints and tips:
...One thing bidders don’t have to worry about is the back, which can range from paper to wood to card, and which Punton and another dealer told me is inconsequential....
...She has already taken on 11 gardeners and a head gardener, Lee Meredith, from a high-class arboretum at Peasmarsh Place near Rye....
...KPMG Australia has hired Stuart Fuller, the global managing partner of law firm King & Wood Mallesons. Fuller will be head of KPMG Law....
...The opening day, for instance, offered Anna Meredith....
...Mérédith, which he opened with his wife Anne-Marie on the Rue de Passy in 1961, offered the productions of a select group of international designers....
...The opening set of unaccompanied vocal music jumped five centuries from the plainchant and Kyrie sections of Josquin des Prez’s Missa Panga lingua to Meredith Monk’s brief rhythmic foray, Panda Chant II....
...He relaxed by knitting, chopping wood and playing with his pet iguana....
...Artist Julian Meredith (who has made a 525ft sculpture of a whale on Colonsay, laid out in a field and made from stones gleaned from the nearby beach at Balnahard) will run wood-block printing workshops....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Steil’s book is an object lesson in how to make economic...
...Order of the British Empire CBE: John Meredith, MD, Hutchison Port Holdings, Hong Kong. John Patterson, deputy chairman, JCB Worldwidechairman and chief executive Officer, JCB Inc....
...We bring it up because Keefe, Bruyette & Wood’s have a note out on the subject....
...Some are replacing cotton with nylon or viscose, a wood by-product typically used in knitted fabrics....
...Where on a cash basis, the banks are doing well; where in a statutory, regulatory basis, they’re still not out of the woods?...
...Meredith Whitney Head of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group I was most nervous a year ago about the real risk to retail deposits....
...After an energy audit on her home this summer, Meredith Keelan spent $12,000 to install six solar panels and deep insulation in her attic....
...Stephen Wood, Senior Portfolio Strategist at Russell Investments, said he was surprised that markets had held up as well as they did given the trickle of negative news....
...Meredith Whitney, an analyst at Oppenheimer, said further significant capital fund raises by other financial institutions were likely going forward....
...“He said, ‘Do you see that wood over there? I can go in there and walk for an hour and a half and meet no one.’...
...Bernie Banton, an advocate for the victims, welcomed the resignations, saying it would help remove “dead wood” from James Hardie....
...They engineered a single product that can embed itself in bone that Mr Meredith says can, in the same mouth, range from “as hard as teak to as soft as balsa wood.”...
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