Big bad apple
In Arthur Penn's vastly underrated but nonetheless awful 1976 movie The Missouri Breaks, Marlon Brando so completely dominates the action with his ridiculous Irish brogue...
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Penny drops on crafty cut
Several leading banks were this week accused of using the festive period to bury bad news about cuts to their savings rates. The Halifax, Bank of Scotland, First Direct a...
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Loss and retention
The massive differences in drop-out rates between universities are a running sore in the higher education sector. For years universities and colleges resisted informed de...
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ECB's slow progress towards 2%
Nobody could ever accuse the ECB of being hasty. Wim Duisenberg's announcement yesterday of a half-point cut in interest rates to 2.75% was the first move in 13 months - ...
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Size of cut shocks Wall Street
The Federal Reserve, America's central bank, shocked Wall Street last night when it unveiled an emergency half-point cut in US interest rates to prevent the world's large...
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Stone cold certainties will force the Fed's hand
It is no longer a question of whether Alan Greenspan will cut American interest rates, but when and by how much. There were already signs from the weekend's deep-throat s...
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What the tourist board doesn't tell you
People travelling to South Africa are paying much higher rates for food and accommodation simply for having a British accent. Hotels and restaurants are charging up to fo...
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Industry welcomes MPC stance
The Bank of England yesterday shrugged off calls for an early rise in interest rates to rein in buoyant consumer spending and soaring house prices, leaving borrowing cost...
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Sport pleads for tax breaks to avoid bankruptcies
The government was yesterday urged to introduce tax exemptions for thousands of British sports clubs to prevent them from going bankrupt.
As many as 40,000 of the count...
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Making plans for drooping investments
Steve Edwards
Age: 40
Lives: in Merseyside
Occupation: Local government officer
Earns: About ?25,000
Mortgage: ?16,000
Debts: None
Investments: Deposit acc...
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