We subtracted neither taxes on this income, which will presumably be sheltered by depreciation deductions, nor operating costs. (At any one time, Don Jr. has a half-dozen people helping him on the licensing operation.) But neither did we add for the potential from future deals not yet signed, the going concern value of the operation.

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Mr De'Ath questioned why it had been necessary for a man in his 70s, who lives in sheltered accommodation, to be arrested by seven police officers at 7am on Remembrance Sunday last November.

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For high executives, often sheltered from unpleasantness by solicitous subordinates, this can be a useful dash of reality.

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