Hints and tips:
...Inevitably Eric Clapton stepped up, culminating in the co-released single “Stand and Deliver”, an anti-lockdown protest track with the glib coda: “Dick Turpin wore a mask too”....
...It was a lacklustre campaign in which DeSantis urged voters not to “monkey this up”, a comment interpreted by many as a racist dog whistle. He won by less than a percentage point....
...Which is how I find myself sinking into a large leather armchair while I receive a whistle-stop tour of supply-side economics from a man who has made studying taxation and incentives his life’s work....
...Transfer Market Lauren Hobart will become the first woman CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, the largest sporting goods chain in the US. She previously worked at PepsiCo and joined Dick's in 2011....
...Paul Stocker (Palamon) and Bryan Dick (Arcite) are great, inflecting everything — boasting, bonding, brawling — with absurd laddish gusto....
...Cressida Dick, just appointed as the new Metropolitan Police commissioner, has her work cut out....
...Poor Mel must have felt increasingly like Captain Ahab scouring the oceans for Moby-Dick....
...I let out a low whistle. The librarian, a dame with don’t-come-hither eyes, shot me a glare....
...“A cheap service shouldn’t be a poor service, but there are more economical ways of delivering that don’t have all the bells and whistles attached,” said Mr Stead....
...Martin’s whistle-stop survey of moss gardens from Japan to North America should convert even diehard moss-militants....
...According to Budde, Lehman was awarding to Dick Fuld, the long-time Lehman chairman and CEO, large unvested stock grants and not fully disclosing them, as required by law....
...The new chief counsel to the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman is the subject of a discrimination complaint from a former colleague at Deutsche Bank, who claims he was fired for blowing the whistle...
...Bryan Dick’s newspaper editor is particularly funny here, spouting big talk of revolution as long as it costs him nothing....
...Before even moving into head office, the art teacher felt compelled to put a whistle in his mouth....
...But these skills are just bells and whistles. Don’t tell human resources, but all they really need in China is a damned fine poker player. Rio’s man in Shanghai starts with pocket aces....
...Dick Fuld, Lehman’s prickly and obstinate chairman and chief executive, has turned down offers valuing it at less than book value. His pride has led to Lehman’s fall....
...Vladimir Putin is no football fan but he was born in St Petersburg and, shortly after the final whistle, he telephoned Dick Advocaat, Zenit’s Dutch manager....
...Mr Leahy also offered the example of how Mr Bush had used a signing statement to narrow a provision protecting corporate whistle-blowers in the Sarbanes-Oxley law....
...“Hank charges at you from the moment the whistle blows and he never quits until the end of the game,” says Democratic congressman John Spratt of South Carolina, who worked with Mr Paulson at the Pentagon...
...But the effort took five days, during which time the whistle-blower fled his country, according to the timeline....
...One EU3 diplomat comments that while the EU isn't banking on a bells-and-whistles diplomatic breakthrough by Russia, Moscow has the most prospect of providing a forward push in the case....
...Dick sells his stake to Harry and launches a class-action lawsuit against the company....
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