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...Elías and Bigliardi are engaging as the sad-sack transgressors (in Spanish, delincuentes simply means “offenders” or “felons”) with a briskly mischievous Margarita Molfino as the mercurial Norma....
...In Rebo’s warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Mr Gonzales points to a small pile of sacks of beans. “We are worried. By this time of year, this space is normally half full.”...
...Commenting on Mr Agius’s resignation, Sir Mervyn said that though the decision was honourable, it put any future chairman in “an impossible position” by forcing them to either sack the existing chief executive...
...“Trying to sack a lot of old people is not going to fix this,” said Paul Gregg, a specialist in labour economics at the University of Bath....
...However Mr Osborne did not look favourably on a suggestion by Mr Tyrie that MPs on the treasury committee be allowed to sack the OBR chief....
...However, the government would need to implement retraining schemes for older workers and brush away rules allowing employers to sack workers when they reach 65....
...Simon Gleeson, a partner at Clifford Chance specialising in bank regulation, said the report should be seen as a “back me or sack me” statement....
...anywhere between a very large number and an unthinkable one,” he said, adding that bankers and their regulators are “struggling to preserve their dignity, with risk management systems a combination of sack-cloth...
...Retailers, for example, will not be able to pay for goods to sell at Christmas and as a result will have to shutter their doors and sack their staff....
...Dissident shareholders forced a proposal to sack Mr Breuer, and by extension Mr Seifert, on to the agenda of Deutsche Börse's annual meeting on May 25....
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