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...Spac teams often consist of seasoned dealmakers and respected business leaders, not spivvy chancers looking for a fast buck....
...Into this scene has swept heatstroke insurance — a product created by an industry with a sometimes overlooked talent for spivvy innovation and a sharpshooter’s eye for Japan’s new vulnerabilities....
...A man — spivvy moustache above a black shirt and white trousers — emerges on to the roof of a solar, a house containing multiple families, to feed Foghorn Leghorn....
...It does leave a question though: when a few of these more spivvy names crack -- will it take the decent companies with them? To be honest, we don’t have a clue....
...For several reasons, there are those keen to interpret this as more significant than just a rise in a spivvy corner of the market, arguing that Covid-19, among the many behavioural changes it has brought...
...“Super-shiny shoes are spivvy. The best salesmen don’t look like salesmen.” It is the older bloke who is more likely to risk more casual Derby shoes rather than Oxfords....
...But it appears already that the Autumn/Winter 2019 menswear season has marked a return to the spivvy, polished, interwar styles popularised by the television series Peaky Blinders....
...Other lost sheep in these penurious pastures include dimwit relatives, spivvy friends and misbehaving kids. Ray’s younger son (loosely based on Billingham?) is dumpy, deadpan and imperturbable....
...On a frigid set, the actor Josh O’Connor, dressed as Prince Charles in a tweed suit and a spivvy cowlick, lights a joss stick in a room designed to ape his royal quarters....
...Ed Stambollouian meanwhile brings snap and crackle to Night School (1979), in which a spivvy young serial criminal (Weaver) returns from his latest spell in prison to find that his aunts have let out his...
...Advocates say it is a completely different kind of product from last time around: lower loan-to-value ratios, higher interest rates and no spivvy features such as teaser rates....
...Neither too skinny, nor too spivvy, they looked the kind of thing a swaggering sort of bloke might wear in the pub after a good day on the trading floor....
...The brand became associated with grim outlets in commuter stations, spivvy dudes dressing for interviews and the dustier reaches of high-street department stores....
...One adviser boasted about the “wonderful theatre” at the “legendary” meeting where he helped seal the fate of BHS and its staff with an ill-judged sale to a group of spivvy purchasers....
...When looking at a bond sale or initial public offering, “if the main [finance minister] guy doesn’t do much talking and it’s all being done by the banker and a slightly spivvy investor relations guy, then...
...their weight somehow; the challenges to friendship never get enough dramatic investment to feel either perilous or moving and neither does a flimsy subplot about the kidnapping of a young otter by the spivvy...
...There can be a certain, how to say, spivvy, shady aspect to some among the London oil promoters, and patience has not been well rewarded over the past year and a half....
...The sort of spivvy property finance that destroyed Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS was not against the law....
...A second top-10 shareholder dubbed the complex derivatives transaction as “spivvy”, but added: “His [Mr Ashley’s] record is very good. What he is doing is very unusual, but it is not necessarily bad.”...
...Banks may well have benefited – in line with their spivvy Libor traders – from rate manipulation. So even if profits are being deflated now, they could easily have been inflated in the good times....
...Every trope is in place (spivvy executives, spliffy rockers, High Fidelity shtick in the record store); unpredictability is as rare as manna....
...And by doing so, both completely missed the moment to capture either the public imagination or mood, although Cameron did have a go with one stinging line, accusing the banks of “spivvy and probably illegal...
...The Financial Services Authority is right to have finally decided to crack down on all those spivvy investment schemes – ranging from carbon credit trading to bamboo plantations – that seem to have spread...
...The way the camera wheels around its small-time hoodlum star Jean Paul Belmondo, with his sweet spivvy bracelet and ability to lie prone on a bed smoking a whole fag without removing it from his mouth once...
...As Mr Aserkoff says: “If you are a spivvy [cynically speculative] hedge fund, you might buy [a certain Greek bank’s] Tier 2 debt in the hope they would be taken out in a year or two.”...
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