Hints and tips:
...Each composer is represented by a short group, the first three by Damien Sneed, who establishes the tone with a defiantly upbeat setting of James Weldon Johnson’s “The Gift to Sing”....
...Elsewhere on Tuesday, a few headlines… — Duncan Weldon on Ed Wolff on US wealth inequality (Prospect): Wolff is unencumbered by any such grand theory....
...What, one fancifully wonders, might they have done had they been allowed, say, Fay Weldon’s years (still going strong at 85) or Tom Stoppard’s (ditto, 79)? Age suits Richard Ford, now 73....
...Cormac Weldon, a fund manager at Artemis, adds: “One potential risk is the trajectory of interest rates....
...● Intech Investment has hired Richard Yasenchak as a client portfolio manager from Russell Investments....
...He now runs the Polar American fund with Richard Wilson. Nick Reeve is senior reporter at Investment Adviser...
...Odile; lovable Allen Ginsberg; Fay Weldon, always up for laughs....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: Economists and economic historians are likely to still be debating the productivity puzzle in years to come....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: The case against ‘Plan A’ was never that it would lead to perpetual contraction but that it would slow any recovery and lengthen any down turn....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: Talking about a UK housing market does not make much sense. In reality, we have a series of regional property markets....
...Richard Jeffrey, Cazenove: I do not believe that forward guidance is a positive step....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: This not the recovery the chancellor wanted. Not only is it several years late, but it remains unbalanced....
...Professor Richard Portes, London Business School: UK growth will slow in 2014....
...Richard Nash, vice-president of content and community at Small Demons, a start-up dedicated to cataloguing references to music, films and objects in books, points out that brands are starting to create their...
...Richard Jeffrey, Cazenove: House prices remain too high if interest rates are set to normalise....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: The labour market has been stronger in 2012 than almost anyone predicted. However this is no reason for complacency....
...Richard Lambert, former MPC member: The possibility of Britain leaving the EU does have worrying implications for the economy....
...Richard Barwell, RBS: The bar is set so low now on what counts as goods news on the growth front that the UK should be able to clear it....
...Richard Jeffrey, Cazenove: The mistake, early on, was to raise VAT. However, current fiscal plans look sensible....
...Richard Lambert, former MPC member: The credit crunch explains a significant part of the UK’s plight since 2010....
...Richard Barwell, RBS: I doubt it....
...Fay Weldon Zoe Heller’s The Believers is a novel of ideas, concerned with intelligent people emotionally at war with their own principles....
...Fay Weldon’s latest novel is ‘The Spa Decameron’ (Quercus)...
...This week, the FBI announced it was investigating Republican Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania. He denies wrong-doing....
...SHORT STORIES: The Thoroughly Modern Collection CSA Word ₤13.61 Short stories often fail to get the appreciation they deserve, so this collection of 23 unabridged titles, by writers such as Fay Weldon,...
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