Hints and tips:
...Tracy-Ann Oberman’s actress Belinda smiles beatifically at the audience as she ploughs doggedly on, delivering whole sections of dialogue to herself because her onstage partner has failed to materialise....
...“I would chain myself to the kitchen sink. Let’s see what they would do about that.”...
...I can either step up to the plate and show everyone how far I’ve come or I can sink back into the depressed state in which you first found me. I must confess, I feel rather nervous about the future....
...Any corporate executive who might have expected Mr Icahn to sink quietly into semi-retirement when he announced in March 2011 that he was closing his funds to outside investors and returning customers’ money...
...From his position as chief financial officer at Goldman Sachs, David Viniar watched his Wall Street counterparts jump ship, be thrown overboard or sink with their broken companies....
...And then reality sinks in and you accept that you’re going to stay.” He will stay because the reality is bank pay is not too bad, even if it appears to be shrinking....
...With yields on the debt breaching the 7 per cent level on Wednesday, the Italian government may start to look inward for investors – again, writes Tracy Alloway....
...May it only be so that the UK recovers to its normal cycle of growth sufficiently, so that I and my colleagues can sink back from the front line into our well-deserved technocratic obscurity....
...- Cadbury and the kitchen sink in Markets Live. On FT.com, - Cadbury raises targets in face of Kraft bid. - BAA sells Gatwick for £1.5bn to City Airport owner....
...If its counterparties continue to make payments, a stricken bank involuntarily absorbs liquidity: it becomes a ‘liquidity sink’....
...– Intermediate Capital Group sinks to fiscal-year loss — statement. – HSBC Infrastructure issues for cash 1.97m new ordinary shares — statement....
...Today’s technical damage might take some time to sink in, (see below) but the selling (and not just in gold) is not yet seen as abating among the larger players....
...(Relatively) hot off the wires: Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama may ask Congress next year to approve a stimulus plan of around $850 billion, an amount that has grown as the U.S. economy sinks deeper...
...But there are also a couple of adorable local restaurants, where we sink into familiar chairs and wait for familiar greetings and for simple splendours to arrive....
...Coxe has no proof that the Fed and Treasury acted in concert to boost financials and sink commodities....
...“They let us sink so they could swim, but now they’ve been caught out, too,” he said. His wife Linda added: “Too many people at the top have been getting paid too much.”...
...“The cloud is auspicious late,” reads one entry.”The low key, the intrinsic rationality, sinks steadily, modest,” reads another....
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