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...Then came the “ice-cream wars” of the 1980s, when family relations broke down between brothers Peter and Aldo, and the ice-cream van became briefly equated with gangsterism on the streets of Glasgow....
...Peter Medawar, the Nobel laureate, whom I am quoting, agreed with the denial; and, as GDP data are generally considered to be facts, the revisions show that Whewell was spot on....
...Corrado Passera, Italy’s development minister said on Saturday: “If a quality Italian industrial solution [for Finmeccanica] can be found that is much better than a quality non-Italian industrial solution...
...trade …is right at the core of what we do as a bank” (Peter Sands, Standard Chartered’s CEO)....
...Two countertenors also do well: the estimable David Daniels as Costanza’s lover Roberto and the young Ukrainian Yuri Minenko as Gualtiero’s confidant Corrado....
...I am disappointed,” Corrado Passera said at the margins of a conference. 10.45: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, will be on her feet in the Bundestag at 12 o’clock Berlin time (11am UK time) to defend...
...Mr Montezemolo, with the image of an aristocratic but modernising technocrat who is close to the Church, is among some 20 entrepreneurs funding the new think-tank, including Corrado Passera, head of Intesa...
...Corrado Passera, the head of Intesa-Sanpaolo, the Italian bank that backed Mr Sabelli’s chief executive campaign, has also supported him publicly by insisting that 30 years of mismanagement cannot be turned...
...“The pricing of risk has become even harder because of the difficulty in forecasting the future in a number of industries,” says Corrado Passera, chief executive of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank....
...The combined bank would have a single chief executive, widely expected to be Corrado Passera, the chief executive of Intesa, though there would be key roles for Sanpaolo executives....
...However, people close to the deal stressed that Corrado Passera, Intesa’s chief executive, would be the group’s sole “empowered” chief executive....
...Dunstone, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse; Baroness Hogg, chairman of 3i Group and deputy chairman of GKN; Sir Digby Jones, director-general of the CBI; Professor John Kay, LSE, FT columnist; Sir Peter...
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