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...Ike Brannon, a senior fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation in Washington, said conservatives who had warned of inflation during the great recession are now being forced to re-evaluate....
...“Ike” was warning about a threat to democracy from the growing power of defence contractors combining with the military, to focus government funds on an arms race with the Soviet Union....
...“Ike’s Rap II” resurfaced again, with Hayes’s vocal haunting the background, in 2015 on the Canadian Alessia Cara’s debut single, “Here”....
...Richard Clayton tells the life of a sample. Credits: Decca, Universal Music, Virgin EMI...
...Pat Steir’s London show runs from November 9 to January 28, dominique-levy.com Photographs: Ike Edeani; Dominique Lévy, New York/London...
...Photographs: Ike Edeani, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Davie Healdy, Ian Reeves...
...In 1958 Little Richard stole the song’s piano intro, virtually note for note, for “Good Golly Miss Molly”....
...Yet one part of the old narrative — Eisenhower’s supposedly distrustful relationship with vice-president Richard Nixon — has so far resisted revision....
...In 1972, as Richard Nixon sought his second term, Mr Burns held all year. William McChesney Martin did nothing in 1964 until after Lyndon Johnson’s re-election....
...He also invokes Richard Nixon’s “silent majority”. Yet by his own yardstick even Reagan was a failure....
...“Dr Dre beats (with) an Ike Turner bowl-cut” is, in fact, how Alex Turner describes a sound that has the chunky-thumpiness of hip-hop and the stadium-blues power of The Black Keys (their recent tour buddies...
...Even Richard Nixon, whose dramatic opening to China changed the nature of the cold war, gets short shrift....
...Ike was chiefly warning about the power of the Pentagon and the big defence companies that had grown up around it....
...Only Richard Nixon paid the ultimate price of resignation for his (very real) Watergate transgressions....
...Was Ike not right? Europeans should take full responsibility for their own defence....
...“It’s strategically brilliant,” says Richard Greenfield, an analyst with BTIG Research....
...“I’m happy that something is finally happening,” said Richard Socarides, who was former president Bill Clinton’s gay issues adviser, noting that most polls show 75 per cent of Americans support repeal....
...Richard Waters, reviewing it for the FT, said the exhaustive account “deserves the wide readership it will undoubtedly get”....
...– while Jones’s replacement Mick Taylor slots seamlessly into place swapping guitar licks with Keith Richards....
...Last year, Lloyd’s suffered from poor investment returns and heavy claims when hurricanes Gustav and Ike contributed to the third most costly year that catastrophe insurers had experienced....
...The situation is in sharp contrast with the same point in 2008 when markets were collapsing and two hurricanes, Ike and Gustav, caused the second-worst annual storm losses....
...“Ike was even more of a watershed event,” Mr Mills says. “It has really crystallised the difficulties of predicting risk in the Gulf.”...
...the damage wrought by Hurricane Ike last year....
...The fall in profit came after £1.75bn of large claims, including £1.4bn from hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which are estimated to have cost the entire insurance and reinsurance industries up to $25bn....
...Richard Ward, Lloyd’s chief executive, said: “While industry losses from hurricanes Gustav and Ike are likely to exceed initial forecasts, the claims to Lloyd’s will be manageable and in the normal course...
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