COUNCIL chiefs today admitted that lessons have to be learned from the collapse of the company behind a key Homecoming event - as it emerged that more than 100 firms are still
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Scotsman on 26th Aug 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
More than 100 jobs under threat at Cambridge University Press (CUP) have been saved. Unite members have been campaigning to save the 425 year old press and the company proposal to axe over 170 jobs, which would have meant the near closure of the the company. But, following talks with the Unite...
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Tigmoo on 2nd May 2009 (via community.printweek.com)
More than 100 jobs will be put at risk when the first UK prison is transferred from public to private control, G4S, the company managing the facility, said
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FT on 1st Jul 2011 (via ft.com)
I am me, that's right; I am 100% me. My vote for whatever party when given is 100%. So....100% of voters who voted for whatever party last Thursday were 100% convinced they voted with the courage of their conviction. It is true that 100% of voters didn't agree with each other, but all those that did vote equals 100%. I am 100% sure that if you disagree with the above then you are 100% wr...
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AngloSaxonChronicle on 9th Jun 2009 (via saxontimes.blogspot.com)
John met Adrian Smith who founded the Mortimer Chocolate Company after a career spanning nearly 20 years with a food company. The produce comes from small growers who nurture their cocoa to produce fine quality beans which are into 100% plain chocolate powder, retaining its unique flavour with no need for additives. The company works
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JohnRedwood on 16th Feb 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
One week later, Zaidi-mania shows no sign of slowing down. The Turkish company that makes the shoe Muntadar al-Zaidi threw at President Bush has seen demand for the think-soled model explode: Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company sold each year since the model was introduced in 1999. The company plans to employ 100 m...
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FPPassport on 22nd Dec 2008 (via blog.foreignpolicy.com)
Ooooh, oooh, here’s a nice little scandal I hadn’t known about. The £100 million owed to creditors by the collapsed credit card company E-Clear has disappeared, according to administrators. Sources close to the investigation into the company, which was put into administration by court order this week, have confirmed to The Times that no trace of the
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TimWorstall on 23rd Jan 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Critics say increasing the time spent on 'cross-curricular lessons' at state primary schools in place of single-subject lessons would prompt parents to search for specialist teaching
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FT on 9th Dec 2008 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Very smart article by Niall Ferguson on the lessons to be drawn from the financial crisis. As one would expect, many of the wrong lessons have been learned by policymakers. As he says, the 1970s was a period of relatively heavy financial regulation and state controls over part of the banking system, and yet it was a grim period economically (unless you happened to be an OPEC oil producer). He also...
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Samizdata on 19th May 2009 (via samizdata.net)