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...Politicians wanted answers to what happened and invited those at the centre of the storm to Washington to explain....
...Their Northumbrian-accented harmonies echoed through the old rooms, reanimating Emily’s dark, stark lines about the beckoning graveyard beside the family home, and wild storms sweeping through the heather...
...Derek Wyatt Founder, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK...
...gideon.rachman@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Here’s hoping the EU rules in our favour / From Derek Wyatt...
...For the most part, these are bleak, northern latitudes; no storms, but no leaping light....
...“We throw away the calm days, stand in the middle of the storm and ask ‘on average, how many houses blow down?’”....
...The effect is a tour de force of light penetrating darkness, as if shafts of sun now and then pierce storm-clouds....
...Mn Services saw the storm coming and cut riskier assets earlier, as well as focusing on operational risks such as collateral. But its clients have still lost....
...This further opens a large job market for Taiwanese workers, according to industry executives such as Watson Wyatt’s Mr Wang....
...The latest PMI figures are also consistent with the 60 per cent plus falls in commodity prices so far, notes Wyatt....
...Whether or not the debate might yield something useful to investors is a separate issue that has not had so much attention in the storm over models, theory, data-mining, optimality and fair value....
...Their weapon: a more flexible retirement savings product that has already taken the US and Japan by storm....
...Last month alone, pension deficits of FTSE 100 companies fell by £8.2bn on top of a fall of £14.1bn the previous month, according to Watson Wyatt....
...It stands at £31.8bn, against a peak of £90bn in March 2003, according to Watson Wyatt, the pensions consultants....
...What is less clear is whether this is the calm after a storm, or one between storms....
...Little in John Profumo's earlier life had suggested that he would ever be at the eye of such a storm....
...This differs from the traditional picture of emerging markets as prey to every economic storm....
...Thisdiffers from the traditional picture of emerging markets as prey to every passing economic storm....
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