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...Additional reporting by Joshua Franklin and Mary McDougall in London...
...Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon has done little to stir any festive cheer at the investment bank’s headquarters in lower Manhattan....
...This is Long/Short, that part of the show where we cheer things we love, grumble about things we hate. Katie, I am long RuneScape. Katie MartinYou’re long what now? Ethan WuI’m long RuneScape....
...The first person to cash in on the smiley face was American graphic designer Harvey Ball, who was paid $45 to create a symbol to cheer up staff at an ailing insurance company....
...Optimism is, in part, what Oliver Wendell Holmes had in mind when he called Franklin Roosevelt a “second class intellect” with a “first class temperament”....
...He not only gave Mr Lander a five point science plan that deliberately recalled Franklin Roosevelt’s sweeping ambition. He also named a sociologist to serve as Mr Lander’s deputy: Alondra Nelson....
...Cheers to new beginnings....
...Conventions hosted the crowds, without the guests of honour — until Franklin D Roosevelt broke with tradition in 1932, appearing in person to promise “a new deal for the American people"....
...Her good cheer will fill any lull in the conversation. And more importantly, she is just the right person to sit next to Richard Pryor....
...The FT’s Attracta Mooney sat down with Franklin, CFA Institute’s first female chief in its 73-year history, to talk about the changing investment landscape....
...Franklin Roosevelt and especially Lyndon Johnson were not asking citizens to look after freshly docked arrivals....
...Quick Hits — What’s on the markets radar There was little cheer from the latest US retail sales, so that maintained downward pressure on the US dollar....
...Its upbeat, turbocharged songs follow in a long line of empowerment anthems, as shown by the fragment of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” that she interpolated into her own song “Worship” early in the show....
...So why not cheer yourself up with a bit of an investment diet? “Know what you own, and know why you own it,” said US investor Peter Lynch. Would you buy the same investments today?...
...Think of Franklin D Roosevelt, who interned US citizens of Japanese descent during the war and tried in 1937 to pack the US Supreme Court....
...Instead of titillation, what Bloom gives us is the grace and dignity of clear-eyed, enduring, imperfect love, and again and again I wanted to stand up and cheer....
...During the second world war, Franklin D Roosevelt treasured the ceremony of mixing martinis on his desk during the cocktail hour....
...But despite being put under review by Donald Trump, the US president, in February, most of the new regulations will be rolled out from Friday, prompting cheers from consumer advocates....
...Despite the drawbacks, there seems to be a bit of Franklin in many of us....
...I sought out Mr Coppola himself, in the antiqued Islamic wonderland of the Hotel La Mamounia (past guests: Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Alfred Hitchcock)....
...“I may not be the youngest in the race, but I would be the youngest woman president,” Mrs Clinton said to a loud cheer from the crowd gathered in Four Freedoms Park. “And the first grandmother.”...
...It is not a story which would appeal to Franklin....
...Paulson & Co was the first large TWC shareholder to publicly cheer the outcome of a bid battle that began last summer when it first emerged that Charter Communications, the smaller US cable outfit backed...
...In the music video for “Blue Magic” he cruised through night-time New York, leafing through a thick wedge of €500 notes rather than the usual wedge of Benjamin Franklins, or $100 bills....
...Or if we have more rarefied and bookish taste, wouldn’t we prefer to spend the evening nose-deep in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and cheer on Thomas Cromwell as he rises and schemes and rises and survives and...
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