Stuart Gulliver, HSBC's new boss, confirmed that the bank is to scale back its global business.
Gulliver reckons most locals will cope, although visitors may miss the service charge's guidance.
GULLIVER'S correspondent in South America reports that domestic air travel in Brazil is finally improving.
Gulliver agrees and finds himself wondering why the carmakers are unable to admit as much.
It is surprisingly effective: just think of Captain Gulliver, tied down by hundreds of thread-like Lilliputian ropes.
Gulliver places huge faith in the genuineness of the smiles at reception and whether the Wi-Fi is free.
But when the tide laps at Gulliver's waistline, it usually means the Lilliputians are already 10 feet under.
Mr. Gulliver, soon after taking over HSBC's CEO post in 2011, announced efforts to tighten the bank's money-laundering programs.
Meanwhile, world number one Trina Gulliver claimed her fourth successive women's title with a 2-0 win over Francis Hoenselaar.
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The earlier parts of Gulliver's Travels are probably the most devastating attack on human society that has ever been written.
One option is to promote Mr Geoghegan to chairman, with Stuart Gulliver, the boss of HSBC's investment bank, replacing him.
Mr. Gulliver sent a memo to employees last week, representing the most explicit acknowledgment by senior management of the bank's failings.
Since taking over in early 2011, Mr Gulliver has been trying to streamline operations, reduce complexity and cut divisions that are unprofitable.
Extraterrestrials, it turns out, are as good at that job as any of the bizarre races encountered by Lemuel Gulliver during his travels.
Only around a quarter of its retail-banking operations provide satisfactory returns, though Mr Gulliver did not say from which countries HSBC would withdraw.
Stuart Gulliver, group chief executive and Douglas Flint, group chairman of HSBC Holdings, appear before the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards at 9.45am.
"HSBC made significant progress in 2012 despite a challenging operating environment characterised by low economic growth and a changing regulatory landscape, " said Mr Gulliver.
Mr. Gulliver, in an April directive to his bankers, said HSBC would apply the strictest compliance standards in all countries in which it operates.
Chief executive Stuart Gulliver said the US would continue to strengthen.
The Leamington Spa ace won the opening set 3-1 and the players shared the next four legs before Gulliver hit double five to seal victory.
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And then there is the cost to President Bush's own political standing and credibility as he lets the world's pygmies tie him down like Gulliver.
Team Captain Phil Gulliver is hoping to attract more Rangers fans.
As Gulliver noted in October, Southwest has been taking steps all year to attract more business travellers, adding special security lines and testing onboard wireless internet.
Robert Gulliver, the NFL's executive vice president of human resources, said that the hiring results were "disappointing" and that he expects to make revisions in the rule.
And since it faces no direct threat from any particular enemy, the greater threat may often seem to be the multilateral strings that tie this Gulliver down.
In the 18th century, Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, made a "modest proposal" to deal with the "surplus" of the children of impoverished women in Ireland.
Instead, Douglas Flint, who had been the bank's finance director, took over as chairman, Mr. Geoghegan left the bank, and investment- banking head Stuart Gulliver became CEO.
In "Gulliver's Travels, " Swift described a vicious conflict between the Big-Enders, who ate their eggs with the big end up, and the Little-Enders, who started from the little end.
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The devoted start arriving at their spots early in the morning, hoping to catch a front row glimpse of Spidey and Spongebob as they float by on their Gulliver tethers.
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He disliked an excessively pedagogic approach to teaching English - "Give them Jack the Giant Killer and Tom Thumb", he wrote, "and then let them have Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver".
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