Then, you can relax a bit, knowing that, as the New Year unfolds, your divorce will be in expert hands.

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In Spain, the pilots are getting less carrot and more stick, wielded by the expert hands of Xabier de Irala, Iberia's chairman.

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Police protection is best left in the hands of those most expert and qualified to render informed, deliberate decisions on implementing the most reasonable safeguards.

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"Certainly one could imagine a lot more important criteria than stamina and shaking a lot of hands, " says Prof Sydney Finkelstein, an expert on effective leadership at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

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