We do ourselves a disservice by praising the second rate
Few things are more calculated to induce rising panic than the Edinburgh festival programme. So much art, so little time, so many ideas, so much to grasp. I have a sense ...
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Rise in jobless rate jolts Japan
Japan's jobless rate rose to a new high yesterday, putting pressure on the government to take further steps to pull the economy out of its worst recession in 50 years.
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Rate of branch closures slows as customers revolt
Bricks and mortar will remain an integral part of banking even though many banks would like to tear down their branches and persuade customers to use methods that are che...
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Low growth forecasts raise chance of euro zone rate cut
The European Commission yesterday stoked speculation of an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank when it revised down its forecasts for growth and inflation in t...
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US state lifts execution rate with a death a week
A man who was convicted of killing an 18-year-old man and then cashing in his victim's life insurance policy was due to be put to death by lethal injection early today, t...
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Brown delivers election pledge with 10p rate
The Chancellor yesterday finally delivered on his election pledge to introduce a new 10p tax rate which will put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. And, in the closin...
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Why we lefties don't rate the euro
In his article on the line-up for and against the European single currency, Ian Aitken made one serious factual mistake (Weird bedfellows, March 4). I never appeared on a...
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Ferguson's star school and its savage rate of failure
May 12, 1993, was not a good day in the young life and career of Robbie Savage. It was not so much the car crash that left him in hospital for a week, but the bombshell t...
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Rate cut demand as economy stalls
A raft of new evidence showing the economy grinding to a halt led to calls yesterday for the Bank of England to make an emergency cut to the cost of borrowing to boost co...
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First Division that is not so second-rate
Wednesday morning's ?8-million arrival of Duncan Ferguson in Newcastle, just 12 miles down the road from Sunderland, will doubtless have had a few Sunderland fans grumbli...
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