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...have become the worst performing sectors on the market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted out the boom and bust and are now reaping the benefits. But these companies didn't emerge unchanged, notes Anthony Habgood, executive chairman of Bunzl, a paper distributor and maker of cigarette filters that moved into the FTSE 100 last week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect to the use of new technology, as indeed have a lot of manufacturing companies," he says, and this has transformed...
...four months after incumbent Robert Runcie announced plans to step down, apparently indicated that the commission reached a strong consensus in favor of Carey. But the choice caught everyone from bishops to bookies by surprise. Most speculation had centered on more prominent figures, among them Archbishop of York John Habgood, a favorite of the intellectual left who confessed to some disappointment at being bypassed, and Liverpool social activist David Sheppard...
...primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate the see of Canterbury after presiding over a meeting...
...parish choirs. So when the General Synod of the Church of England convened a historic session last week in Church House at Westminster Abbey, supporters of a motion to allow women priests had reason to worry. After all, a similar proposal had failed in 1978. Archbishop of York John Habgood, who favored the change, was calling it "deeply divisive." Another liberal, Bishop Hugh Montefiore, had prepared a half-a-loaf amendment to authorize a 20-year "experiment" with women priests that could thereafter be halted. Then, during the mannerly, 4½ hours of speeches, opposition was announced by the church...
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