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...Mining magnate Norman Keevil, who holds a controlling voting stake in Teck, also opposes Glencore’s proposal, although he has said he would support a potential deal for Teck’s metals business once it is...
...The sitter is Norman Willis, former Trades Union Congress leader and RSN Trustee....
...Kay Ryan, Loganair’s chief commercial officer, said the island provided “more than a hint of being overseas” and expected it to be extremely popular among British tourists whose other options might be limited...
...Mervyn King, in his book with John Kay Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future, makes a similar point; computer models should inform decision-making, but do not replace the need for...
...Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why it Matters , by Jesse Norman, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 380 pages John Kay is an FT contributing editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly, by John Kay (practical comment)....
...Kay has worked with many Parnham graduates, finding through that network, “makers of exceptional skill and sensitivity”....
...“I didn’t want to see normal, everyday life in metric,” Mr Norman shrugged, as his wife and accomplice, Kay, served tea and carrot cake....
...Lloyds Banking Group chairman Norman Blackwell thinks Britain should push for a “common sense” approach of agreeing “to maintain mutual recognition of regulatory standards between the UK and EU”....
...We once suffered from Norman Angell’s “Great Illusion”: the British journalist and Labour MP argued in his 1909 book against the myth that prosperity was the product of aggressive control of territory and...
...UK Peter Ellingworth Chief Executive, Association of British Healthcare Industries Simon D Harris Director, AS-Tec Chemicals Dr Harren Jhoti President and Chief Executive, Astex Pharmaceuticals Kay...
...The contributions of Burke to political thought have recently been eloquently restated by Jesse Norman, a Conservative MP....
...The expansive and expensive Norman Foster terminal was saved from being a white elephant by the growth in the 1990s of low-cost airlines, for whom attractive landing charges at Stansted offset the inconvenience...
...How does this tie in with the Kay Review?...
...My colleague John Kay explained this elegantly on Wednesday, but in a nutshell there are two problems....
...David Norman, founder of TCF Investments, has presented evidence to the Treasury on the lack of transparency in financial products and found 15 separate points at which savers are charged when buying an...
...V; even the butler is the venerable Charles Kay, with an implausible Brummagem accent....
...And there is a beautiful moment on the second day, when an author who requires little introduction in Edinburgh stands up to say, “I’m Jackie Kay from Scotland, and I am a lesbian.”...
...My colleague John Kay this week extended the law to state that if you set targets, then hitting them will become more important than doing the job....
...A local member of parliament has joked that the probable reason for the success of the Norman Conquest was that Harold, on his way to Hastings, was held up on the A21....
...From Prof Norman Dombey. Sir, John Kay (October 5) shows how calculated ambiguity can be essential in diplomacy: he quotes Henry Kissinger’s visit to China in July 1971 as an example....
...“Ongoing economic uncertainty means that many employers are expecting to make replacement hires rather than growing their headcount in 2012,” says Kay Senior, a director in the group’s banking and financial...
...This bodes well, as Kay is an economist who also tells it like it is....
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...As Norman Lamont, one of our questioners, points out: “It is unreasonable to expect MPs or candidates to be equally knowledgeable on all subjects....
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