Hints and tips:
...“We think there is no pain-free way of reducing the size of an investment bank,” says Richard Buxton of Merian Global Investors, a long-term Barclays shareholder....
...“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”...
.../ From Christopher Joubert, Marlborough, Wilts, UK...
...Bryn Rowlands Malmesbury, Wilts, UK...
...Money man: Supporters of the Premier League's executive chairman Richard Scudamore hail him as the man who transformed English football....
...In 1841 Richard Cobden entered the House of Commons to represent the Anti-Corn-Law League, explaining that: “You speak with a loud voice when you are talking from the floor of the House, and if you have...
...Taverner Western Wynde Mass Choir of Westminster Abbey (Hyperion) The catchy tune of “Western wind, when wilt thou blow?” made it a popular song in 16th-century England....
...Bob Wilt, the president of Alcoa Global Primary Products, said: We will continue to meet the commitments made to our employees and our stakeholders....
...Sentences to remind us of the nuttiness of Chinese equities over the past few months from BNP Paribas’ Richard Iley (and yeah, the Shanghai Comp fell 0.8 per cent today we have to admit, but that just broke...
...Photographs: Richard Nicholson...
...“Resurgent demand and slow supply have been the defining features of the market in 2013,” said Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack....
...Fifteen years before he extracted a measure of Watergate contrition from Richard Nixon and half a century before his death, Frost co-edited a compilation of snippets derived from the Saturday night programme...
...The whole performance was light on its feet – truly dance music, not a power-house orchestral showpiece – and Les Siècles refused to wilt in the face of some of Roth’s very fast speeds....
...Nigel Rodgers, Salisbury, Wilts, UK Letters in response to this report: A preference best kept secret / From Richard Wulliger...
...But he has also so far managed to avoid serious scrutiny and may wilt, just as other alternatives to Mr Romney have, once his campaign comes under sustained coverage....
...The former is likely to make my hair wilt; the latter to wreak havoc with the blow-dry....
...By his own admission, Richard Miller knows nothing about the arcane skills of cabinetmaking....
...Economists have darkened their outlooks for the timing of a US economic recovery, as Friday’s revision showing a steeper contraction than previously thought was a reminder that rosy forecasts often wilt....
...Dutch violinist Janine Jansen made an impressive soloist in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, banishing any hint of mawkishness in the music with a bracing display of bow technique that could make rivals wilt...
...City vacancies may be running at just 5 per cent but this will rise as employment wilts and 4.5m sq ft of new space floods the market....
...Wishful investors in today’s credit crisis spurred financials into small rallies in January, April and July but the stocks have continued to wilt....
...It is not the same as a month at Cliff Richard’s villa in Barbados. Yet the real point is not the dwindling staff perks....
...“Despite what doom-mongers might be saying this research shows UK corporates remain alive to M&A opportunities,” says Richard Grainger, chief executive of Close Brothers’ corporate finance arm....
...Richard Ratner, an analyst at Seymour Pierce, said the profits warning left “the management with a huge credibility issue”....
...Wary of producing a poem that might wilt into obsolescence, Paterson declares his Orpheus to be not a translation but a version....
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