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...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Powell reads at night: a current favourite is The Saxon Stories, a series of historical novels by Bernard Cornwell about medieval England....
...Ronald Burkle is a fan....
...In reality, the silent generation included Bernard Madoff and Dick Cheney; in spirit, it did not....
...The comedian Bernard Manning performed at the opening of which influential nightclub in 1982? Which two ballroom dances feature in the Nato phonetic alphabet?...
...And finally, after her crucial role in partnership with Ronald Reagan in the ending of the cold war, she managed to marginalise herself during the final climactic events by her opposition not only to her...
...David Pilling Economics, business and technology Bernard Arnault LVMH chairman and chief executive Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and chief executive Tim Cook Apple chief executive Jamie Dimon JPMorgan...
...From its headquarters in Manhattan’s Lipstick building, where Bernard Madoff used to conduct his business, Alden has seized on deteriorating newspapers across the country, ranging from the small Alaskan...
...Hendrik du Toit Investec For almost 40 years Investec, the banking group, has been led by founders Stephen Koseff, Bernard Kantor and Glynn Burger....
...It is a denial of politics itself, which, as the late scholar Bernard Crick reminds us, is the only alternative to government by coercion and the tyranny of the majority. We have been warned....
...As Ronald Coase argued, transaction costs, because they limit the scope of exchanges in the market, help explain why companies exist....
...Ronald Kers, former chief executive of dairy company Müller, has replaced Mr Boparan as chief executive, while the founder is now company president....
...The obsolescence I have in mind was anticipated by Silicon Valley’s favourite economist, Ronald Coase....
...Billionaire Bernard Arnault is simplifying the complex corporate structure between his family holding company Groupe Arnault, Christian Dior and LVMH....
...Mrs May has hoped to build a partnership with Mr Trump based on the co-operation between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan....
...Imagine the Gallaghers, teetering atop Coleridge, balancing on Newton, who is none too steady aboard Bernard of Chartres....
...Arcanum had hired Bernard Squarcini, chief of domestic intelligence during Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency....
...For inveterate Democrats such as Bernard Schwartz, one of Clinton’s biggest donors, the decision whether to support her is an easy one....
...There was much anticipation in the run-up to the New York hearing of the lawsuit opposing billionaire collector Ronald Perelman and mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, in their spat over the purchase of a Jeff Koons...
...Illustration by Luke Waller … Letter in response to this article: Grace Bumbry sang as Venus at Bayreuth in 1961 / From Jean-Bernard Wurm...
...Bernard Arnault The French billionaire’s Foundation Louis Vuitton, which will showcase the corporate art collection of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, opens on the outskirts of Paris this October....
...The 1980s, when conservative leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl defined the world’s political climate, saw a significant change....
...My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59, edited by Robert Cumming, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$45 A meeting of minds between the flamboyant connoisseur and the distinguished...
...Think of the opening scene in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and you will get the idea....
...Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Don DeLillo set novels in sport. Richard Ford actually wrote a novel called The Sportswriter....
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