The packaged sandwich chain has also tailored its UK products to the local market, according to its marketing director Mark Palmer.

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Finance is missing some of the hottest technologies around, Mark Palmer told a panel about event triggered trading at the Futures Industry Association in Chicago recently.

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Fastow also described a meeting in which Lay and Enron spokesman Mark Palmer discussed a list of 25 detailed questions from the Wall Street Journal about partnerships that bought poorly performing assets from Enron.

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"If the question has become when, and not if, a lawsuit will be filed against Moody's, then the shares are simply unbuyable, in our view, " an analyst at US investment firm BTIG, Mark Palmer, told Reuters.

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Bronze medallist Alex Coomber, the women's bobsleigh team, luger Mark Hatton, speed skater Debbie Palmer - and of course Fiona MacDonald's husband Ewan, were whistling and cheering every time our girls blasted the Swiss stone or added another point to the scoreboard.

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