Word: barings
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...there's an easy way to do almost anything. In the last six months alone, the easy brand - owned by Stelios' easyGroup - has lent its name to an online movie-rental operation, a mobile-phone operator and a pizza-delivery service. Expect budget motor insurance this month, and a bare-bones hotel in west London starting in July. To hear Stelios - as everyone calls him - tell it, easyGroup is the little guy's champion. "This is not just about yuppies taking holidays in St. Tropez," says Stelios. "This is about single mums staying at home, ordering pizza and watching...
...crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list" naming the alleged pests. These included U.S.-based investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone as well as several German funds, all of which have bought up and restructured German companies...
...goes beyond bare investigation. Exciting scenes that get to the core of the villainy involved include Ken Lay joking about the California energy crisis, Enron traders talking about ripping off grandmothers, and a bizarre “video Valentine” from both Presidents Bush to former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling...
...flaws that would have hampered the festivities even if the weather had been good. The Undergraduate Council (UC) needs to rework future events based around Springfest to ensure their success. Independent of the weather, however, there were other factors conspiring against a successful Afterparty that should have dissuaded the bare majority of council members who voted for the event...
...support giving individual departments power over which courses will count for gen-ed credit, we also believe that students should take at least one HCC in their two required areas. Ideally, these courses would be so intellectually stimulating that students would want to take more than just the bare minimum...