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...Rio Tinto has appointed former BHP executive Dean Dalla Valle and Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, former chief of Australian investor Mirvac Group, to its board....
...Susan Sontag dismissed Surrealism as a bourgeois disaffection (“That its militants thought it universal,” she wrote, “is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois”)....
...Previous deals have included cyber security group Imperva ($2.1bn), data visualisation company Qlik ($3bn) and mortgage software group Ellie Mae ($3.7bn)....
...“Scott’s telomeres were longer during space flight than they were before or after,” said Susan Bailey of Colorado State University, who led this part of the study....
...Jo Ellison is the FT’s fashion editor Photographs: Silvia Olsen; Tim Regas Letter in response to this article: Chronicling the ‘now’ on the streets of New York / From Susan L Serbin...
...When Shire recommended the offer at the start of the week, Mr Gonzalez knew he was close after successfully bringing Susan Kilsby, Shire’s non-executive chairman, to the negotiating table....
...Dividends from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and rising tax receipts helped push the surplus to $116.5bn, compared to a $59.7bn deficit a year earlier (Bloomberg)....
...Senate Republicans blocked a third judicial nominee this week and also opposed Democratic Congressman Mel Watt, who was named to head the regulatory agency that oversees mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...
...Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw her name from consideration – a supremely wise one given how much poison is in the air – leaves the Massachusetts senator somewhere close to being a slam dunk for the job...
...Stronger house prices and lower provisions for future credit losses helped raise Fannie Mae profits by about 3 per cent in the period, said Susan McFarland, chief financial officer....
...Rosenberg is an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a global law firm...
...Fannie Mae owes the Treasury more than $117bn. Susan McFarland, chief financial officer, said the company now expected results for the year to be “significantly better” than 2011....
...Once a company is defined as a swap dealer, “it’s a night and day difference”, said Susan Ervin, a partner at Davis Polk and former senior CFTC and SEC attorney....
...“There have been big deals, but this was a colossal transaction,” says Richard Drucker, a corporate partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell....
...“Republicans took the payroll tax cut extension bill hostage and delivered a big year-end bonus to Big Oil,” said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Natural Resources Defence Council....
...Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two Maine Republicans, said they had also decided to back the bill....
...“It has always been next year that the issue of Fannie and Freddie will be taken up,” said Randall Guynn, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell as he moderated a panel at the New York event....
...Susan Semba, the lending director for the Idaho Housing and Finance Association, which administers the programme, said she expects the new initiative to have delinquency rates of about 7.5 per cent....
...Top of that list are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the huge mortgage financiers. Together they manage a $2,500bn-$3,000bn mortgage portfolio....
...But banks have still been making loans and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have stepped in to pick up some of the slack....
...Astrid Menks, a former waitress, ended up staying and after years spent in a strangely blissful triangle with Susan, she married him in 2006, two years after Susan’s death....
...Thus, says Susan Mathieson Mayer, director of marketing and communications for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, “PR is in our lifeblood....
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