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...I’m thinking of something such as David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, which followed defence secretary Robert McNamara and his “whiz kid” group of policy experts and uncovered how America lost...
...Brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista signed leniency deals with prosecutors and spent time incarcerated....
...Wesley So hoped for either a queen exchange or 2... Qf3 3 Qg2 with repeated moves but he missed 2...Rh1+! and wins. Chess 2408 1...g4+! 2 Bxg4 Rh2+! 3 Kxh2 Qxh4+ 4 Kg2 Qxg3+ and Qh2 mate....
...Robert McNamara at one point had maybe the best résumé in America. He could hardly have been a more ruinous defence secretary....
...The past several decades of economic history might have been quite different if not for Robert McNamara, a cerebral, tightly wired colossus of a figure who, as secretary of defence under President John F...
...The president, however, came round to his defence secretary Robert McNamara’s idea of a US naval blockade of Cuba. It is fortunate he did so....
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...Best of all are Wesley Snipes as a simpering thesp turned director and Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Moore’s bolshie co-star....
...(Grantham Coleman), defence secretary Robert McNamara (Matthew Rauch), Alabama governor George Wallace (David Garrison), Chicago mayor Richard Daley (Marc Kudisch) and his arch-nemesis Robert F....
...We mentioned a couple of weeks earlier the McNamara fallacy, which advises against viewing metrics such as body counts as clear and objective measures of anything....
...Mr Tomazoni will replace the 85-year old José Batista Sobrinho, who took over from his son Wesley Batista last year following his arrest....
...Back in 1927, the US economist Wesley C. Mitchell was making the case for these connections in his book, “Business Cycles: The Problem and Its Setting”....
...JBS has been selling assets and the Batista brother’s investment company, J&F, is facing fines of R$10.3bn ($3.1bn) over 25 years....
...Robert McNamara had just become president of the Ford Motor Company in November 1960 when John F Kennedy offered him the job of US Treasury secretary....
...John F Kennedy’s presidency was almost upended when he took the Central Intelligence Agency’s advice to launch a botched invasion of Cuba....
...At a 2012 auction he picked up a pair of upholstered chairs used in cabinet meetings by President John F. Kennedy and secretary of defence Robert S. McNamara. He then dismembered his finds with gusto....
...J&F, is facing fines of R$10.3bn over 25 years with JBS divesting assets to pay for the penalties....
...J&F has to to repay R$18.1bn ($5.5bn) in JBS’s short-term debt, and pay a R$10.3bn ($3.2bn) leniency fine after brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista confessed to paying bribes to almost 1,900 politicians...
...They included two brothers from the Batista family, Joesley and Wesley Batista....
...Wesley and Joesley Batista are among JBS’s executives who signed a plea bargain deal with Brazilian authorities in exchange for reduced sentences, in a furore that that has sunk Brazil into political and...
...Wesley Batista has stayed on in São Paulo as chief executive....
...Wesley Batista, 47, his quieter brother, served as chief executive. The brothers were consummate dealmakers....
...The two brothers who run the company, Joesley and Wesley Batista, listed it in 2007. And then they went on an acquisition spree....
...When I was at Plymouth, one day in training I shot well wide, and Barry Hayles [a veteran striker] said: ‘F**king hell, Cherno. That’s not why I bought you in Championship Manager.’...
...CEO, Association of European Airlines (AEA) Fabio Gamba CEO, European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) John Hanlon Secretary-general, European Low Fares Airlines Association (ELFAA) Simon McNamara...
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