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...In 1874 a retired military officer, Major Walter Wingfield, began marketing a game he had designed, which we would recognise today as the modern sport....
...Here’s Merryn Somerset Webb on why the crisis in Ukraine is adding a further dose of uncertainty to markets....
...The brief prologue saw soldier Matthew Webb (Luke Treadaway) muttering about finding his “girl” as the Japanese bombs rained down....
...But SFC data tracked by Webb-site, an online database maintained by activist investor David Webb, shows mainland companies as a whole have continued hiring even as recruitment by international and local...
...Walter Pichler’s ominous-looking audiovisual helmet did something similar, prefiguring today’s virtual reality headgear....
...Facebook’s proposed currency is none of these things, but the social network has an obvious stake in bringing the world’s financial transactions in-house, Merryn Somerset Webb writes....
...His older brother Walter was ousted as chairman in 2008 before both Raymond and Thomas, another brother, were charged in a high-profile trial with “conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office”....
...For each leg of the journey westward Kaplan summons now obscure literary guides who chronicled America’s great expansion such as Bernard DeVoto (The Course of Empire), Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Plains...
...Splash out on a hot tub Merryn Somerset Webb, FT Money columnist My new year resolution is very simple . . . to spend more money....
...Spokesman Walter de Gregorio said on Wednesday that there were currently no plans to re-run it....
...The following seven officials were arrested: Jeffrey Webb, Eugenio Figueredo, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Rafael Esquivel and José Maria Marin. See bios of them here....
...But authorities allege the corruption continued under Jeffrey Webb, who was elected president of Concacaf in May 2012....
...The writer is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: Forget about algebra, Dickens has the answer / From Mr Walter Campbell Maths teaching just doesn’t add...
...From Mr Walter Campbell....
...Adrian Edmondson, Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey and Robert Webb play the hapless explorers who find themselves marooned on an island in the Lake District with only a sausage to sustain them....
...The possibilities for instant gratification opened up by pensions reform were memorably encapsulated by Steve Webb, pensions minister, when he said it would be up to an individual, not a matter for the government...
...Photographs: Getty; 4Corners Images; Andrea Pistolesi; Walter Bibikow; Peter Adams / AWL Images...
...It influenced Walter Lippmann, the movement’s voice in journalism – one of the first to set strict standards in factual reporting....
...Worse, in Walter Salles’ film, they have the cod-iconic monumentality of a theme park, filled with sights and sounds we are schooled to recognise and abjured to pay homage to....
...“Clearly three of the directors [the three Kwok brothers] know what the allegations are,” said Mr Webb....
...Mr Chan, one of Sun Hung Kai Properties’ seven executive directors, was among the defendants in a court case filed in 2008 by Walter Kwok, former chairman and eldest son of the founder....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of Money Week. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com...
...Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom, published in paperback next week, is partly concerned with the inheritance of characteristics – in the case of Franzen’s character Walter Berglund and his anger at “stupidity...
...Food Britannia, by Andrew Webb, Random House Books, RRP£25 Like a gluttonous contemporary William Cobbett, Webb has toured the country talking to food producers old and new....
...Harriet Walter, actor. COMMANDER, CBE Francis Baron, former chief executive, Rugby Football Union. Rabbi Tony Bayfield, for services to British Reform Judaism....
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