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THE AUSTRIAN flight specialist Mondial (081-314 1181) is offering cut-price deals on direct flights from Edinburgh and Dublin to Vienna. In 1992 losses from ‘natural’ catastrophes reached a record – dollars 27bn.Asbestos claims, damage from storms, flooding and pollution – these are the reason why thousands of Lloyd’s Names have been ruined, and it looks increasingly like a roll-call of man-made disasters. Salomon Brothers calculates the offer is worth 130p.Manchester Utd had to be content with a 5p gain to 684p as it finally clinched the Premier championship.Gerrard & National continued to advance on last week’s figures and reorganisation, up 17p at 485p. SAATCHI & SAATCHI yesterday closed the book on its hugely expensive attempt to rule the world of advertising in the 1980s, writing off pounds 600m against the goodwill value of its agencies.
He belongs to the city’s most elite clubs, and has contributed millions to politicians across the spectrum.A Roman Catholic with strong ties to the church hierarchy (he once gave a cardinal a helicopter to enable him to avoid the freeway traffic), he claims to be pro-choice and owes some of his riches to investing in the pharmaceutical company that came up with the world’s first birth control pill. They will pay dividends in the usual way but, since it takes three years to determine the underwriting profits from any one year, the profit component will be postponed accordingly. Moor Street Films is the latest on the bandwagon, attempting to raise pounds 750,000 for Mad Dogs and Englishmen, a thriller set in London and Somerset.With hopes of being the next Leon the Pig Farmer – another BES-backed film which became a cult hit – the directors will start shooting next May. The criteria for founding liability for negligent mis-statment were met.The council’s adviser was speaking as a professional officer with special knowledge and responsibility. At the Royal Academy (where you have to be able to draw to get in), he developed a taste for abstracts, but when rock ‘n’ roll seized him by the ears he decided to try to convey some of the spirit of the music in visual form, and went figurative.
Oxtoby has until now been known for his large paintings, which are mostly portraits showing pop musicians in action – singing, dancing and playing. ‘At a guess, I’d say we’re operating at 30 to 40 per cent below capacity,’ said Jeffrey Stainton, a partner.
Then she giggled and pointed at a photograph further down the same wall: ‘Ooh, it’s the Beatles.’
Her first comment had been directed at the picture directly beneath that of Chris Bonnington, to the left of Ted Dexter, and easily overlooked if you forget to turn left at the bust of Learie Constantine. But after a comeback at Crystal Palace at which he threw over 85 metres, his ankle swelled up again before his next meeting at Gateshead He taped it up – too tightly As a result, he pulled his adductor tendon while warming up. medical cart.’ ‘Some grounds seem to have a medical cart,’ observed Trevor Brooking, ‘and some a sort of. It’s the mid-Seventies and the traditional, upright, urbane Charles Ashworth, now-retired Bishop of Starbridge, is looking back over his turbulent years during the previous decade. The Confederation of British Industry’s Smaller Firms Council yesterday added its pennyworth with proposals to speed the recovery of bad debts by improving court procedures.If implemented they might almost halve the waiting time for repayment. With stooped shoulders and his famous shock of hair now quite white, Lord Cudlipp, mustering all the passion of a reformed sinner, launched into an attack on contemporary tabloid mores, comparing them with those in force when he was in charge.What we had today, he raged, was ‘intrusive journalism for the prurient’.The basic human right of privacy had been banished in the interests of profit.