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...The only significant contribution was from the skipper, who made a resilient and gritty 85 of 234 balls, only to be sucker-punched by the part time leggies of Smith as the shadows lengthened....
...Of course, one can imagine how intimidating that must have been for our antipodean guests, never having seen a beard of that magnitude since Rolf Harris left for the UK....
...Not unusually for western Scotland, the sky was low and grey, and rain had made the rocks slippery by the time Richard, the skipper, rowed us ashore in the Patricia’s dinghy....
...“In the tough backstreets where I grew up, every young lad dreamt of becoming a stockbroker one day,” England skipper Rio Ferdinand said....
...Anita Skipper, Aviva Investors’ head of corporate governance, says: “It raised fundamental questions about how companies should reward chairmen.”...
...The FT-Harris opinion poll, published today, shows the Spaniards to be relaxed about the impact of private equity ownership – but that is partly because they have not had much experience of it....
...A week later it bought Scott Goodman Harris, a UK specialist financial adviser. For a business steeped in tradition, do these purchases risk upsetting decades of finely tuned processes?...
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