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.... ★★★★☆ To January 27, almeida.co.uk Pacific Overtures Menier Chocolate Factory, London Matthew White’s chamber revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1976 musical Pacific Overtures, about the westernisation...
...“We see significant legal and political obstacles . . . the capital structure of HSBC makes a redomicile or a break up very tricky,” said analyst Manus Costello....
...Autonomous analyst Manus Costello has argued that the bank’s “three-legged stool” strategy, with outposts straddling Asia, the Americas and Europe, is now too wobbly to justify. Quinn rejects this....
...A large group of senior Wall Street executives, including David Solomon of Goldman Sachs and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, have backed Joe Biden’s $1.9tn stimulus plan ahead of this week’s crucial votes...
...Stephen Costello sang Faust with a solo contribution from his violinist wife Yoon Kwon Costello....
...Highlights include a reading by Van Morrison (“I like the short ones”), new songs by Bono and Elvis Costello, and Geldof’s chat with Edna O’Brien about Yeats’s attractiveness....
...The investors pay cheaper rates because of the federal insurance afforded by Fannie and Freddie, says Jim Costello, senior vice-president at Real Capital Analytics....
...“The most obvious move is $1 maximum bets on pokies,” says Stephen Mayne, a local government councillor and campaigner for gambling reform....
...Stephen Costello coped nobly, if not always successfully, with the cruel tenor tessitura of Percy, and Tamara Mumford exuded sympathy in the trouser duties of Smeaton....
...Mary Costello’s novel ‘Academy Street’ is published by Canongate...
...Revered as among the great value investors of all time, they have taught generations of followers the wisdom of Benjamin Graham with the wit of Abbott and Costello....
...The house is vast, a permanent retreat for the scattered diaspora of Martins and Costellos....
...The top 100 build around a third of all the homes in the US,” says Tim Costello, chief executive of Builder Homesite, a consortium of US housebuilders....
...“For the most part we have seen a reversion back to the kinds of underwriting standards we saw five years ago, before the crisis, and for that we are not unduly concerned,” says Glenn Costello, senior managing...
...Plenty of risks remain, but the progress made so far is of huge credit to chief executive Stephen Hester and his team. However, fixing the balance sheet is only part of the process....
...“No analysts value RBS at above the break even price,” said Manus Costello at Autonomous. “It will be quite a long haul to achieve that.”...
...The chancellor’s priority is for Stephen Hester, RBS chief executive, to continue shrinking the bank and to give him the political space in which to deliver a new-look operation that will eventually pay...
...However, fixing the balance sheet is only part of the process, write Paul Myners and Manus Costello of Autonomous Research....
...Stephen Costello coped nobly, though not always comfortably, with the lofty outbursts of Percy. Tamara Mumford looked better than she sounded as the boyish Smeton....
...Eglise Gutiérrez has the musicality to impress in the title role, and Stephen Costello makes an attractive Carlo – a valuable addition to Opera Rara’s Italian series....
...“For some people, that’s an emergency,” says Ms Costello....
...Stephen Costello sings beautifully as Greenhorn (Ishmael in the novel). The vibrant soprano Talise Trevigne is a joy to hear as the cabin boy Pip, and Jonathan Lemalu is strong as Queequeg....
...Tenor Stephen Costello is Greenhorn, and young baritone Morgan Smith is Starbuck....
...Another notable hit, he says, was tenor Stephen Costello. “I gave him a recital based on a DVD sent to me of performances he had given as a student at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia....
...Perhaps, given time and more experience, Eglise Gutiérrez and Stephen Costello will learn to colour their voices and create a sense of character from the music....
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