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...Charles Bolden, Nasa’s administrator, pointed out at an event on Monday at Reagan National Airport near Washington that Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to cross the sound barrier, did so nearly 70 years ago...
...The news comes a month after Robert Lynch, the company’s then chief executive, unexpectedly resigned and two months after the company announced that chief financial officer Daniel Terrell would step down...
.../ From Malcolm McIntosh Baffled / From Robert McCann...
...In this rogues’ gallery Robert Allen Stanford looks almost presidential-and shows that even when athletes trust financiers of high repute, things can go disastrously wrong....
...Ben Terrell, chief executive, said: “The internet has flattened the world for ever, and that is where we are trying to go.”...
...Is this a dotcom dystopia, the inevitable residential corollary to Bowling Alone, the much-debated book by Robert Putnam, the Harvard political scientist, which posited that America’s social capital was...
...Blige (“I’d Like To”), Tammi Terrell (“Call Me When You Get This”) and Martina Topley-Bird (“Put Your Records On”). Bailey Rae has yet to flesh out her own style....
...Bush’s two appointees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito – to overturn Roe vs Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalised abortion....
...Mr Murtha has faced allegations that he abused his position as a member of the defence appropriations sub-committee by favouring a lobbying company of a former long-term staffer and clients of Robert “Kit...
...Robert Sicuro, a retired attorney who has voted for her in the past, says he probably will support Ms Pryce again, but only grudgingly....
...Democrats are on the defensive in New Jersey, where Robert Menendez is struggling to hold on to his seat....
...Robert Borosage, the co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, a liberal advocacy group, said Wal-Mart’s evident popularity with potential Democratic voters also raised questions for the party....
...And in Maryland, Martin O’Malley, Baltimore’s Democratic mayor, ousted Republican Robert Ehrlich as governor....
...Robert Byrd spent this week the same way he has spent much of his 48 years in the Senate, fighting to get his way on a spending bill....
...By May 2005, Mr Aguirre says that his branch chief, Robert Hanson, had instructed him to concentrate on one series of trades – understood to be Pequot’s purchase of stock in Heller Financial and shorting...
...With Robert Zoellick, a China expert, moving in the opposite direction – from deputy secretary of state to Goldman Sachs – Mr Paulson could become the leading figure in Sino-US relations....
...Robert Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state, has been angling for the job. “The real problem there is Karl, who has had run-ins with Bob....
...In 1987 he defied his party leadership and joined Democrats to defeat Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court....
...Additional reporting by Christopher Swann and Robert Wright...
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