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...wildest new-economy talk. He dismisses as "less than credible" any idea that "we need no longer be concerned about the risk that inflation can rise again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back up his predictions by citing such obscure data as vacuum-cleaner sales in Iowa...
...Harvard Business Club Treasurer Richard A. Leigh-Pemberton '95 said both organizations are simi- lar in purpose, and he is worried that theEnterprise Society might "unfairly take away ourmembers with our membership list...
...Leigh-Pemberton of the Business Club calledthis "a generous description at best, consideringthey have never existed before...
...against B.C.C.I. while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1990. Replied an ashen-faced Major, who said he had learned of the full extent of the bank fraud only on June 28: "If you are saying I am a liar, you had better say so bluntly." Robin Leigh-Pemberton, governor of the Bank of England, later affirmed that Major first received details of the scandal in late June...
...regarded Zayed's purchase of the bank "a welcome development," he said the corruption that originated with B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi and his fellow Pakistani managers had penetrated the entire institution. "The fraud involved not only past management but continuing management, board members and representatives of the shareholders," Leigh-Pemberton said. Yet he insisted that the full scale of the wrongdoing had only recently come to light...
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