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...In his final year, the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the ensuing riots in Los Angeles inspired him to pursue politics....
...the global financial crisis, and it hasn’t been possible on a consistent basis despite strong economic growth, low unemployment, and massive stimulus,” said Jim Leaviss, CIO of public fixed income at M&G...
...Those factories will go out of business,” Morris Goldfarb, who runs G-III Apparel said last week in an earnings presentation....
...Private equity firm Great Hill Partners has agreed to buy Jezebel and The Onion-owner Gizmodo Media Group from Univision Communications, as the Spanish-language broadcaster makes a hasty retreat from its...
...In 1952, the reception given to Rodney Ackland’s play The Pink Room, about a Soho nightclub as the second world war ended, was so hostile that it effectively stopped his successful writing career dead....
...M&G fund managers, and others, who are wooing industry hotshot Allan Leighton to take the top seat can hope....
...“HSBC, which is really revered in Asia as a brand, has big opportunities in wealth management and insurance that they haven’t really capitalised on,” says Mr Wilson at L&G....
...In July, R&F agreed to purchase 77 Wanda hotels on the Chinese mainland, in another hasty deal....
...It has been one of the first movers in this rapidly expanding space through transactions with the likes of M&G Real Estate, L&Q and Greystar....
...He eschewed the obvious crowd-pleasers, instead choosing sonatas such as the G major, Kk260, with its zany harmonies....
...“But I fear even they may be a little less hasty in an environment where yields are rising.”...
...I suggested he might want to check with the chancellor before jumping to any hasty conclusions but he said he did not think that would be necessary....
...“It came up over a coffee,” said Rodney Cook, Just Retirement’s chief executive, of how he came to discuss the idea with his opposite number at Partnership, Steve Groves....
...It’s also hard as I write this not to imagine his “bruv” Rodney pointing out that Ali G wasn’t a Londoner anyway: “He’s part of the West Staines Massif.” “I know that you plonker,” Del Boy would say....
...It’s all part of a g rowth agenda.” ● “If everything you do is moving tax upwards you’re starting to create an atmospheric which, in terms of a direction of travel, is risky....
...“L&G is one of the most-affected,” said Abid Hussain, of Société Générale....
...“Insurance is a sector under pressure, but it is not time to be too hasty and cut positions,” says a fund manager at one of the UK’s largest institutional investors....
...Mr Ferguson said the valuation had been arrived at after a year of discussion, but said that only the two largest external shareholders, Invesco and M & G had been consulted on the sale....
...The hasty departure of Mr McDonald, announced late on Thursday, follows a period of weak performance that has disappointed investors....
...Other early academic pioneers included Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke and John Hope Franklin – all Harvard graduates....
...He served his legal clerkship with William O Douglas, the illustrious liberal Supreme Court Justice and then went to work for Governor Edmund G “Pat” Brown, the architect of modern California whose son is...
...The sound he drew from his Steinway-Fabbrini was strikingly lucid, but in the faster music he kept setting hasty speeds that were too rigid and left him scrambling to fit in all the notes....
...But remove their fame and what you have is a collection of repetitive poses and hasty snapshots, punctuated by the rare revelation that requires no soundtrack to make it sing....
...Rodney Calvert, managing director, Millbrook, the motoring development centre. Sara Carter, for services to women entrepreneurs. Jean Combes, for services to phenology....
...Praveen Krishnamurthy, India David Begg: Good management practices are needed in all situations, and the soundest defence to a crisis is to have good systems in place, not to make hasty ad hoc decisions...
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