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...The signatories to the letter, who also included actor Steve Coogan and film-maker Norma Percy, said the government’s public service broadcasting advisory panel has been meeting “in secret with no public...
...Simon Godwin has duly turned this problem play about the downfall of a spendthrift Athenian noble into a resonant parable of greed and inequality in our time....
...Martin Carthy offers a new version of “Scarborough Fair”, a song he championed in the 1960s and taught to Paul Simon, with ghostly raindrops of piano....
...Again the fashion world took note, with the period referenced by John Galliano’s Dior and later the more subtle eye of Raf Simons....
...3i Group has started the sale processes of at least four companies, including Canadian group Mold Masters, as it focuses on returning cash to investors under the helm of new chief executive Simon Borrows...
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...Moreover, according to Simon Kirby, senior research fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, the usual assumptions about how distributions of cash to households – the equivalent...
...“The concern has long been about the effect of squeezing lenders while not affecting deposit rates which are close to zero,” said Simon Hayes, economist at Barclays Capital....
...Simon Kirby, a senior research fellow at the institute, said that in a healthy economy, injecting expenditure equal to 1 per cent of gross domestic product – roughly £15bn, or the worst-case estimate for...
...Simon Wells, economist at HSBC, said he expected the more modest sum was most likely, if only to allow time for the “funding for lending” programme to take effect....
...“There are few positives to take away from these data,” said Simon Hayes, an economist at Barclays Capital....
...Simon Hayes, an economist at Barclays Capital, said he thought there was still a range of views on the MPC about the usefulness of a rate cut in spite of Sir Mervyn’s apparent opposition....
...Similarly, Simon Hayes, economist at Barclays Capital, rejected the argument that the output data were wrong and would be revised to better reflect the more positive labour market statistics....
...Simon Wells, economist at HSBC noted that the overall level of the survey suggested that manufacturing was still expanding....
...Three years almost exactly since he said, “Thanks, but no thanks” to the idea of becoming ITV’s chief executive, Simon Fox of HMV has decided the time is right to leave the struggling retailer whose dog...
...and the hawks on the Monetary Policy Committee will be concerned that inflation expectations may grind up further, given that inflation is not falling as quickly as forecast at the start of the year,” Simon...
...“It is a boost to income,” said Simon Kirby, UK economist at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, an academic research body....
...“The MPC seems more concerned about the stubbornness of inflation and, in turn, its own credibility,” said Simon Wells, economist at HSBC....
...Simon Kirby, UK economist at Niesr, noted that the growth outlook is much weaker than it appeared at the time of its last forecast in October, which anticipated growth in 2012 of 0.8 per cent....
...Simon Wells, economist at HSBC, highlighted a suggestion in the minutes that at least two of the nine members believe that inflation may prove harder to eradicate than the Bank projected in its quarterly...
...Simon Wells, economist at HSBC, said the main uncertainty surrounded household demand. The level of household consumption in the third quarter of 2011 is only 1 per cent above its trough in mid-2009....
...Coming hot on the heels of Simon Curtis’s reverent film My Week With Marilyn, Raaff’s Waiting hits a similar note of literalistic hagiography....
...Simon Wells, economist at HSBC, said that in financial services, the problem might be the way output was calculated, rather than output itself. “Financial sector output is hard to measure,” he said....
...Simon Wells, chief UK economist at HSBC, noted that the latest data showed that, more than two years after the recession ended, Britain had recovered only about half the 8 percentage points of output lost...
...“I am big,” says the slighted Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950). “It’s the pictures that got small.” She had no idea....
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