Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four seniors were named British Marshall scholars yesterday, tying Harvard's down-river neighbor MIT for most recipients per school...
...program seeks students who demonstrate"intellectual distinction" and the "potential tobecome leaders" according to information releasedby the British Council, which coordinates theprogram on behalf of the British Embassy...
...turn part of a $17 trillion global pool of money belonging to what bankers euphemistically call "high-net-worth individuals"--a pool that generates more than $150 billion a year in banking revenue. The numbers are especially impressive when you consider that except at a few sleepy British and Swiss institutions, the private-banking industry didn't exist until the 1980s. Citibank predicted early this year that it would reach $1 trillion--that's trillion with a T--in private-banking assets by the year 2010. And it faces some 4,000 competitors, from global dreadnoughts like Switzerland...
...European banks by surprise. "People have this image of private banking as a crusty old frock-coated Lord and Lady Jemima Puddleduck having tea with the bank manager," says Simon de Ferrer of the Royal Bank of Canada. "But the new wealth is more like Richard Branson"--the flamboyant British founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records...
...understanding of the unspoken language of horses coalesced in his early teens, he writes, during a magical trip to Nevada to round up mustangs for a race in Salinas. He, Larry and a friend named Tony Vargas made the trip together, camping and studying the mustangs. So says the British edition of his book, published two years ago. But both Larry and Vargas deny that such a trip occurred. "They're lying in their teeth," says Monty. In the U.S. edition, published last year by Random House, Monty told a similar story but used the names of Ralph and Vivian...