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...The firm has made a number of well-timed and well-priced acquisitions like those of Smith Barney and the E*Trade broker network. But it’s also been acquiring brokers team by team....
...Neglected by government recycling targets, the mass of plastic, copper, circuit boards, magnets and batteries join the planet’s trove of e-waste once they die....
...UBS Asset Management has appointed Raymond Yin as head of China onshore....
...Retail head Gordon Smith, CFO Marianne Lake, and commercial chief Doug Petno also got $1m rises, to $20m, $13.5m and $12m respectively....
...Today only one (the newly promoted Mr Smith) is still at the bank....
...The latter would have served as a joke at the Alfred E Smith “roast” dinner, where presidential candidates are supposed to make self-deprecating remarks....
...and partners, central and eastern Europe, Microsoft 54 Crawford Prentice , head of service recovery UK, HSBC 55 Bob Annibale , global director of community development and inclusive finance, Citi 56 JR...
...Some readers have quibbled about the facts of Orwell’s memoir but, as Raymond Williams writes in his 1971 essay for Fontana Modern Masters, this dichotomy between fact and fiction is beside the point....
...Good fiction is good fiction.” ——————————————- Treble indemnity: spot the real Raymond Chandler 1....
...Heineman, Jr on Harvard Law’s blog on Monday....
...Bernanke and his advisers talked about its language, and his communications aide, Michelle Smith, typed it up back at her office....
...Its current director is the distinguished scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr....
...E-mails from Philip Roth, John Updike and Edmund White, among others, sustain her....
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...Like most people, I don’t do that any more, and e-mail hasn’t replaced the habit....
...I like to think I played it cool – zen fan – but I gave Butt my e-mail and have never heard from her since. Hmmmm....
...(Toni) Sacconaghi Jr, Sanford C. Bernstein Toni Sacconaghi is the senior research analyst covering IT hardware stocks at Sanford C. Bernstein....
...She has only been introduced to the world at large this season as head of internet strategy, six years after launching the brand’s e-store, now the largest Marni retail outlet in the world....
...I bet £500 on you, Smith’s saying it’s Mr Oxbridge golf-crony-son-in-law, so call me back. Better still, get your scabby arse over to the Ivy....
...The death sets Bunny off on a crazed road trip with his nine-year-old son Bunny Jr, who in spite of his father’s obvious moral squalor cannot help loving him....
...Armstrong Paul E. Germain John J. McCabe Suhail A. Sikhtian Charles Baillie Paul Graves John J. McGuire Jr. Gavin Simms Philip R. Berlinski E. Glenn Hadden Milton R....
...Smith Jr, whose father joined Charles Merrill’s operation in 1916 upon graduation from Amherst College....
...Those news cuttings in turn provided H.E. Bates with the plot of one of his bestselling novels, The Scarlet Sword....
...Fremont-Smith, investment banking, telecommunications. James R. Garman Kevin S. Gasvoda, investment banking. Joseph H. Gleberman, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, private equity....
...Wisnia Andrew E. Wolff, principal investing. Neil J....
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