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...His follow-up nominations were for Children of a Lesser God, in 1986, and James L Brooks’s Broadcast News in 1987....
...He grew up in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, where his French mother is the press attaché for Albin Michel, a century-old publisher whose authors include Philip K Dick and Irène Némirovsky....
...He was surrounded by family in his final days, his partner of 48 years, William L Thompson, having pre-deceased him....
.... ——————————————- Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group How are you spending the summer?...
...Mr Olver took over as BAE chairman in mid-2004 from Richard Evans, who retired....
...On October 6 Richard Fuld testified before the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...People familiar with the discussions say that several institutional investors have informally discussed the idea of replacing Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP’s chairman, with Dick Olver, a former executive at the...
...We are ready to do this as soon as DFID indicate their agreement,” wrote Dick Olver....
...There are chapters on the history of America’s foreign policy towards communist China, taking the story from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama....
...Paul Skinner, former chairman of Rio Tinto; Sir John Sorrell, chairman of the London Design Festival; and Dick Olver, chairman of BAE Systems; are among those from the original line-up who may stay on, according...
...Sir Anthony Bamford – JCB Malcolm Brinded – Royal Dutch Shell Richard Lambert – CBI Chris Patten – Chancellor University Oxford Alan Parker – Brunswick David Brewer – Former LM of London/Chair China British...
...The long list of executives also include Dick Olver, chairman of BAE Systems, Deutsche Bank’s Anshu Jain, London Stock Exchange chief Xavier Rolet, 3i boss Michael Queen, and the CBI’s Richard Lambert....
...Mike Dicks, Wadhwani Asset Management: The risks to consensus expectations have shifted to the upside....
...Sainsbury chairman John Hood Oxford university vice-chancellor Lord Digby Jones Outgoing trade minister Anna Mann MWM Consulting Dick Olver BAE Systems chairman Prof Alison Richard Cambridge university...
...Richard Jeffrey, Cazenove Capital No, and I anticipate a secondary downturn will be seen in house prices during 2010....
...Dick Olver, chairman of BAE Systems, will on Wednesday call for a review of the corruption cases against the group in what will be viewed as a last-ditch attempt to draw a line under claims that have dogged...
...Both Mr Turner and Dick Olver, BAE’s chairman, have acknowledged that the company needs to “deal” with its past and have accepted the findings of the Woolf report that showed it had fallen short of best...
...The suave Dick Olver, Sir Richard’s successor as chairman, and the blunt-speaking Mr Turner have had their moments of tension. There was no hint of that on Tuesday....
...Two US senators, Charles Grassley and Richard Durbin, have claimed that outsourcing companies are potentially misusing a visa scheme designed to make it easier for multinationals to move managers and specialists...
...The tendency to shoot from the hip has led to disquiet from fellow board members on occasion and sometimes created tensions with his chairman, Dick Olver....
...Dick Cheney never comes out well in New Yorker cartoons....
...On April 27 1937, l’Humanité, the artist’s daily paper, carried a report on the German blitzkrieg against Guernica, together with photographs of corpses and a panorama of the shattered Basque town....
...Dick Cheney, US vice-president, tends to stick with Dick but even he lapses into Richard B. Cheney on the official White House internet site while his wife is Lynne V. Cheney....
...If such criticisms bother Mr Turner – or indeed his boss Dick Olver, BAE’s chairman – they do a good job hiding it....
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