Word: cosset
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...years when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, his support for financial services was especially notable because his Labour Party had a history of antagonism with the City. Brown sought to convince the financial community that New Labour would be pro-business, pro-enterprise, noninterventionist and keen to cosset the rich, believing their wealth would trickle down to the wider economy. Brown also championed a new governance system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation. In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave...
...Gordon Brown. As Chancellor of the Exchequer for 10 years, his support for financial services was especially notable because his Labour Party had a history of antagonism with the City. Brown sought to convince the financial community that New Labour would be probusiness, pro-enterprise, noninterventionist and keen to cosset the rich, believing their wealth would trickle down into the wider economy. Brown also led the way for Britain to put in place a new governance system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation (although bankers and regulators cringe at that...
...nobody takes culture more seriously than the French. They subsidize it generously; they cosset it with quotas and tax breaks. French media give it vast amounts of airtime and column inches. Even fashion magazines carry serious book reviews, and the Nov. 5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...Until last year we were selling 20 to 25 properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro, director of Mark-Sol real estate agency in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. "When we get a client now, we must cosset him and treat him like gold dust. We have to work harder and spend more money on publicity." The influx of foreign cash has its darker side, too. Arrests earlier this year of 25 people in Marbella - including the mayor, her deputy mayor, two city councillors and the former chief...
...touched him, Bradley successfully fashioned himself an uncompromising outsider. Measured against political blue bloods like the son of a President, this son of a town banker so crippled by arthritis he had to be dressed in the morning looked like a character out of Horatio Alger. Bradley didn't cosset himself in a limo but drove his own battered Oldsmobile, wore the same no-designer tie day after day and had shoes so worn that a Congressman said someone should steal them off his feet while he was asleep and shine them...