• Wednesday in the Commons begins (at 11.30am) with questions to the International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, followed at high noon by prime minister's questions - the last before the summer break.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • However, it is expected some stores in prime High Street locations will be reopened by other retailers who have expressed an interest in buying their leases, which could offer job opportunities to redundant Woolworths staff.

    BBC: Bargains in closing Woolies shops

  • Abbott also hit out at polling, which he appeared to blame for the recent high turnover of Australian prime ministers.

    CNN: Why Tony Abbott lost power

  • Providian lent extensively to sub-prime (high-risk) consumers and has been bitten by extraordinarily high charge-offs and delinquent loans.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In 1980 the prime hit a high of 18.5%, then dropped to 10.5% within three years, before creeping back up again.

    FORBES: Watch Your Assets

  • Britain is clearly determined to stay close by America's side, even at high political cost to its prime minister, Tony Blair.

    ECONOMIST: Mr Schröder goes to Washington | The

  • Regional banks have also steered clear of the other main area where credit is deteriorating, sub-prime lending (high-interest loans to borrowers with patchy credit).

    ECONOMIST: Hard times have been good to America's smaller banks

  • Mr Rudd is not Vegemite's only high-profile defender - Prime Minister Julia Gillard also spoke out in its support when she visited the US in March.

    BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011

  • Just months after opening his first eatery in Europe, a branch of CUT, serving high-end dry aged prime beef, in the revamped and luxurious 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, he has made an even bigger impression in the City of Angels.

    FORBES: Wolfgang Puck Takes LA -- And London

  • It also killed high profile figures, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa.

    BBC: Q&A: Post-war Sri Lanka

  • Much has been written about the advanced energy-saving installations carried out by experts, and how small, shabby offices more suggestive of shady detective agencies or fly-by-night financial operators were replaced by "prebuilt" high-tech interiors to attract prime corporate tenants.

    WSJ: The Empire State Building's Luster Returns | By Ada Louise Huxtable

  • Based on Warren Ellis' popular graphic novel, the creators had high hopes it would make it to prime time.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Politics and morality are inescapably intertwined and few politicians head for the moral high ground with greater alacrity than the prime minister.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • It has equally surprised those - including Smith himself - who were expecting the prime candidates to come from high-echelons of the business world.

    BBC: Gordon Smith is on the ball as he arrives at Hampden Park

  • My next time in the corner (yes, there are some comfortable chairs nearby), I talked with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the former prime minister of Portugal.

    FORBES: Bono, Peres, Guterres: People On The Move

  • Although unemployment stayed high under Mr Prodi, the former prime minister held on to his brave conviction that small and medium-sized industries, which have made northern Italy one of the richest parts of Europe, can also take root south of Rome.

    ECONOMIST: Italy

  • At a meeting chaired by Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and high-level railroad officials in early April, the construction of a railroad stretching from the banks of Russia's Lena River to the Bering Strait was discussed at length, adding further evidence that Moscow sees the BST project as not only feasible, but inevitable.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Bering Strait Tunnel Project

  • Three months ago investors had high hopes of Junichiro Koizumi, the incoming prime minister, who promised structural reform.

    ECONOMIST: Sinking to old lows

  • Beatrix, held weekly meetings with the prime minister and spoke regularly with high-ranking ministers and secretaries of state.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Other high stewards have included the Georgian-era prime minister Lord Rockingham, Hull businessman and MP Thomas Robinson Ferens and former Labour home secretary Herbert Morrison.

    BBC: East Yorkshire city brings back ancient roles

  • Backed by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, the prime minister made the SNP a high-stakes offer: legal powers to hold a referendum, but on Westminster's terms.

    ECONOMIST: Scotland��s referendum: If at first you don��t succeed | The

  • High-profile visitors have included former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark.

    BBC: Canada native hunger strike sparks Quebec blockade

  • Twitter says that about 130, 000 tweets per minute were posted about the new pope, a rate it described as "very high" given that it was not a prime-time event.

    CNN: Millions use social media to welcome Pope Francis

  • That will help the prime minister go out on a high next May (or thereabouts) and offer Mr Brown the chance to lead a stable government that knows where it is going.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • At the top of the line, lies the Snapdragon S4 Prime, which is targeted at high-performance applications, particularly non-mobile uses like browsing and connectivity for smart TVs, set-top boxes, and digital media adapters.

    FORBES: Qualcomm Segments Chips To Hit More Markets

  • The former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott is the most high profile candidate.

    BBC: Do the public want police and crime commissioners?

  • Prime Minister Noda of Japan set a high bar for us, so we are going to try to follow your footsteps.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Welcomes Leaders at APEC Summit

  • RTE's Prime Time said Anglo went to the High Court in Dublin on Wednesday and lodged documents detailing its decision to call in the guarantees.

    BBC: anglo irish bank exterior

  • Mr Gupta and others who are suspicious of reform seem to share the high-minded attitudes of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who once told J.

    ECONOMIST: India��s choices

  • Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.

    ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Muslims and Hindus

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