John Gordon, a restaurant analyst in San Diego, believes that the company-owned Burger King restaurants expected to go on sale in the coming months are likely to be poor investments.

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The tale of David Gordon (John Cusack), a successful science-fiction writer and grieving widower who adopts Dennis (Bobby Coleman), a brilliant oddball, has enough emotional depth and integrity to make its flaws all the more obvious.

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John Healey, who served as a local government minister under Gordon Brown, described the legislation as the "most fundamental change in local government funding since the poll tax".

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Crumbs perhaps grew too fast into suburban markets that couldn't support the brand, suggests John Gordon, principal at Pacific Management Consulting Group, a restaurant-industry analysis firm.

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John Wilkes, of the Hell-Fire Club, faced a similar dilemma during the Gordon Riots of 1780, when an anti-Catholic demonstration in London escalated into an orgy of burning and looting.

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Another of the DHI papers on oil and gas, written by John Paterson and Greg Gordon of Aberdeen University, underlines the uncertainties that the move to independence could introduce to a sensitive investment market.

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