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Those that have made the grade appreciate the bank's blend of snob appeal and personal service. In a recent survey of U.K. private bank and wealth-management customers published by Market-Dynamics Research & Consulting (MDRC), C. Hoare & Co. achieved a client-satisfaction score of 82. Industry wide, that rate slumped below 60, the lowest in years. Common complaints: poor communication and rapid turnover in bankers assigned to manage relationships with clients. With a fifth of C. Hoare & Co.'s 250 staff clocking up 20 years in the job, the bank pledges a level of personal attention not seen elsewhere...
...blackjack was essentially a means to an end. “We were out there to make money,” Irvine said. “It was definitely a business for us.” According to Irvine, “all you need to count cards is...grade-school math.” As attendees followed along in their own decks, he explained the counting process. Cards numbered two through six are “plus one”; seven through nine are “neutral”; and ten through ace are “minus...
Though I had even higher aspirations, apparently my mom was so impressed with my graduation from sixth grade that she bought me a gift: an incredibly cool gold-chain necklace. The chain said to all who saw it, Sure, I may look like an honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take...
...Hank was a terrific headmaster,” Brownstein said. “And it’s a very difficult job, dealing with the range of kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade and being able to relate to all of them. He was a figure in the hallway...
...their decision, which came well after the transfer application deadlines of other schools. In recent years, Harvard has accepted more transfer applicants than Yale or Princeton (who don’t allow transfer applicants at all) on the basis that students who transfer in tend to have higher grade point averages at Harvard than students who come in as freshmen. Moreover, transfer students add a diversity of background and experience to the student body. This certainly could be said of Max. A French kid who left his family to come to high school in America and ended...