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...Drinking for Him and Her (they remain unnamed until the very end) is fun, dangerous, rebellious: “I have two rules: stay single and drink doubles,” she declares, like some hard-bitten Raymond Chandler character...
...“Under Theresa May, [her former joint chief of staff] Nick Timothy was her think-tank. I don’t think anyone’s replaced him,” said one senior researcher....
...The prospect reminds me of Raymond Chandler’s narrative voice: “It was a blonde …a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.” (That’s a true femme fatale, in my business.)...
...Mr Chandler agreed and said a signal that Beijing was unhappy would also be serious....
...“The risk is that we see a wave of quasi-sovereign downgrades in the wake of the news out of Dubai,” says Timothy Ash, head of emerging markets strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland....
...Mark Chandler, of Brown Brothers Harriman, said this could prove to be a turning point for currency markets....
...“Winston Churchill once quipped that the ‘Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives’,” said Mark Chandler, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman....
...Timothy Robert Blevins is a pelvis-fixated Crown and Ronald Samm’s chunky Sportin’ Life has riveting projection, diction, timing and sheer enthusiasm, bringing the house down with a breakdance impression...
...Mr Chandler notes that such market mechanisms could be achieving what “rate hikes by central banks appear to have mostly failed to do”....
...Cerf, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy, MCI Mark Chandler, Vice President and General Counsel, Cisco Systems Peter Chernin, President and COO, News Corp....
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