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...The novel opens with a shifty ex-con named Felix Mordaunt arriving at Arden, the country house where Godley Sr lay dying in The Infinities....
...The decision he and Richard Nixon took to back Pakistan’s brutal suppression of the uprising in what became Bangladesh is high up on any charge sheet against him....
...America, as Richard Hofstadter wrote a few years before RFK’s death, suffers from periodic waves of paranoia....
...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
.../ From Richard Buxton, Fund Manager, Jupiter, London SW1, UK Mis-steps on road to the pension fund implosion / From Sally Godley Maynard, Global Equity Manager and Former Pension Trustee,...
...There they make 1,800 shades by hand, using a method passed down from Henri Roché Sr, which has changed little since the 18th century....
...But during this campaign, his son spun Marcos Sr’s presidency as a golden age of prosperity, and he won by a large margin....
...Whatever the result, this is a remarkable turnaround for a family who were pariahs (albeit very rich ones) when Marcos Sr was ousted in 1986....
...He looks at a range of mobility options, including the Mate Icon e-bike, the Onewheel Pint Board (pictured), the Seabob F5 SR Sled and Polaris Ranger EV Vehicle....
...Richard Godley, a pensioner from Whitby, said the board should hold out for a higher bid. “It’s just an opening salvo. I can’t see they are taking it seriously.”...
...Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde and some 50 per cent faster than the world’s fastest jet-engine powered aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird....
...Wyatt’s parents, Mr and Mrs Richard Wyatt Sr., look to be the sellers of the work: they were recorded as lending it to the touring White retrospective that closed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
...Richard Godley, who lives four miles north of the mine, believed Sirius was right to pull out of the bond sale, which had a coupon of more than 13 per cent....
...Santiago Alfonso, himself a former dancer and choreographer, makes a powerful screen debut as Acosta Sr, but the movie is stolen by fellow newcomer 10-year-old Edilson Manuel Núñes as his whiny, ungrateful...
...Apollo was a project championed by Democratic politicians, derided as “nuts” by one Republican president (Dwight Eisenhower) and cancelled by another (Richard Nixon)....
...Account of three Lehman generations took me back to 55 Water Street — Letter from Steve Butcher: Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley stage a tremendous performance of Stefano Massini’s Lehman...
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...In 1804, Frederick Graff Sr designed a hydrant that he had manufactured by Foxall & Richards, a firm better known for producing the cannon used by the US Navy....
...Jon Huntsman Sr founded Huntsman with his brother in 1970 after leaving a junior role in President Richard Nixon’s White House....
...His father John Sr — the once “indestructible”, fun-loving “Keith Richards of law” in the eyes of his son — died in February at age 81. The loss has left him pensive....
...(Politico) Two Bronx politicians divided in 2016 State senator Reuben Diaz Sr is a conservative Democrat flirting with supporting either Cruz or Trump, while his son, Reuben Jr, the Bronx borough president...
...Named after Thomas Watson Sr, the chief executive who built the modern IBM, the system first saw the light of day five years ago, when it beat two human champions on an American question-and-answer TV game...
...Sir Richard Branson got the nod because of the way he had stamped his personal brand on a series of businesses, from music to airlines to financial services....
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner both came from working-class backgrounds to head a company whose progress has done much to define the first century of the information...
...When Wallenberg Sr became foundation chairman in 1982 its assets amounted to SKr2bn; today they total SKr85bn, while grants of SKr2bn were issued for research and education last year....
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