28Jul/100

You seem never to speak to the same voice twice in fact most of the time you

You seem never to speak to the same voice twice, in fact most of the time you are lucky to speak to a live voice at all.Private investors tend to fall in love with the shares they research. A reasoned and dispassionate expert opinion before a final buy decision is made would be invaluable.All these [...]

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28Jul/100

This is not because special facilities for children – public baby-care rooms high chairs

This is not because special facilities for children – public baby-care rooms, high chairs in restaurants and so on – are particularly good Rather, it is a question of attitude. To some extent it is the boundless indulgence (some would say over-indulgence) of children that makes special facilities for them superfluous.Elderly and young, men and [...]

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28Jul/100

The minimum investment to be held before qualifying for CGT is too high he says

The minimum investment to be held before qualifying for CGT is too high, he says. At present, an employee needs to own at least 5 per cent of the company to qualify.The Government is considering lowering this limit “substantially” before the reforms become law next April. If they brought the minimum down to 1 per [...]

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28Jul/100

Unlike the last few generations of V8 Ferraris which have been a gradual evolution of the 1975 308 the

Unlike the last few generations of V8 Ferraris, which have been a gradual evolution of the 1975 308, the 360 is an all-new, all-aluminium design, mating radical “cabin-forward” styling by Pininfarina to a 400bhp engine. It is bigger, lighter, better equipped, stronger and faster than its predecessor, the 355, and it also generates four times [...]

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28Jul/100

That they have not yet appeared is partly due to the fact that Eurostar is struggling to fill its trains

That they have not yet appeared is partly due to the fact that Eurostar is struggling to fill its trains from London and Ashford. A new attempt to get upmarket bums on to some of the 10 million seats this winter begins tomorrow: a day return to the French capital, in first class, for pounds [...]

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28Jul/100

The museum and the Luxor Temple are open till 9pm

The museum and the Luxor Temple are open till 9pm.Getting around Luxor by bicycle will allow you to get up to the Karnak temple, and around the west bank, where most of the sites are. Hire a bicycle for EGP5-10 (pounds 1 or pounds 2) per day, and get the ferry across the river. All [...]

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28Jul/100

The Stahlhausen Enterprises Theaterkollektiv rehearses Hanns Eisler in Bochum’s Jahrhunderhall Century Hall

The Stahlhausen Enterprises Theaterkollektiv rehearses Hanns Eisler in Bochum’s Jahrhunderhall (Century Hall).Deeply resonantMozart never sank this deep. The New Westphalia Philharmonic plays the Haffner Serenade in the kilometre-long Romberg shaft in Werne. The musicians, and their conductor, Johannes Wildner, donned mining clothes and hard hats for the occasion. The concert, held on 20 September 1998, [...]

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28Jul/100

The names in neon lights outside this one: Now appearing – Van Gogh Monet

The names in neon lights outside this one: “Now appearing – Van Gogh, Monet and Cezanne – with special guests, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse”.The owner is the doyen of the New Vegas hoteliers, Steve Wynn, and his gimmick here is a small but definitely heavyweight art collection to woo the punters with a touch [...]

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28Jul/100

The San Francisco-based Wells Fargo bank launched its first online service in 1990

The San Francisco-based Wells Fargo bank launched its first online service in 1990. Customers could check balances on their PC screens and transfer funds between accounts. In 1994 the bank set up a website and in May 1995, Wells Fargo was the first to offer banking via the Internet.In the UK in the early 1990s [...]

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26Jul/100

The equity cycle can be shown schematically – with rising share prices driven first by

The equity cycle can be shown schematically – with rising share prices driven first by falling interest rates, then falling as interest rates rise, then rising again as economic growth pushes up profits, and then falling as growth peaks and profits fall back.If this all sounds too easy, Capel applied this schematic vision of the [...]

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