Started and raised funds for the U.K. office of Women for Women, which helps women who have survived war.
Investors also are paying increasing attention to the rental-apartment sector in the U.K. In the past four years, the number of people living in rentals has increased 23% to 3.8 million, according to the U.K. Office of National Statistics.
The report quotes a memo from the U.K. foreign office from November 20o2 written by an official who had just met with BP.
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The writer, Richard Morais, responds Your points are noted, but these warnings were issued by the U.K. Foreign Office Travel Advice Unit and the U.S. State Department.
Lord Bates is delighted about having access to the resources of the U.K. Foreign Office, which has done everything from arranging meetings to getting a salt bath for his tired feet.
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Following a second quarter that was the wettest on record, the Olympics period in central London brought slightly less rain than normal, a spokeswoman for the Met Office, the U.K. weather agency, said Sunday.
Southeast England, where the majority of businesses are located in Britain, was hardest hit, with up to 10.0 inches (25 centimeters) of snow reported in some areas, according to the Met Office, the U.K.'s national weather service.
Among the U.S. companies logging on are Disney, K-Mart, Office Max and Toys "R" Us.
INQ, based in London, U.K. with an office in Palo Alto, Calif. is targeting 18-28 year olds with the Cloud Touch and has focused all its devices on social networking from day one.
More recently, politicians have had to accept debt brakes and other devices to limit borrowing and many have submitted to external surveillance by independent monitors such as the U.K.'s Office for Budget Responsibility or, under the euro zone's Fiscal Pact, by the European Commission.
Thatcher took office in 1979, the U.K. had been sick for years.
She took office in 1979, becoming the U.K.'s first and only female prime minister.
In the U.K., the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has taken up a type of restorative justice in its penalty of defense contractor BAE.
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David Cameron (No. 10), 46, is two years into office as prime minister of the U.K. Mexico just elected 46-year-old president Enrique Pena Nieto (No. 54).
It seems that Britain's Work and Pensions minister, David Blunkett , had broken ministerial rules while out of office by becoming director of a U.K. company without consulting a special independent committee.
Since taking office in May 2010, the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer has followed to the letter what the current Governor, Sir Mervyn King, has called a "textbook response" to the financial crisis.
Vacant space has long been in short supply in Washington's most desirable office districts, such as the lobbyist-filled K Street corridor.
And K-Reit has partnered with Mirvac in two office developments to date.
Kennedy Wilson entered the European market 18 months ago to focus on the U.K. and Ireland and recently opened a Madrid office.
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Alwaleed has a number of investments in the U.K., including a stake in the Canary Wharf office development.
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Each year the PAEMST award, which is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, alternates between granting honors to teachers of grades K-6 and grades 7-12.
On the days when she allowed herself to see him, Husna would stay in the office after the secretary left, gazing out of a window that overlooked the long garden where K.K. walked.
More signs the pound is set to drop: U.K. public spending is on the rise, according to data released by Britain's Office of National Statistics on Tuesday.
Blinkx's technology comes from U.K.-based enterprise-software vendor Autonomy (with which the company shares a San Francisco office).
Chief Executive K. Srinivas Kumar gave me a tour of the operations housed in the same building as his office.
An office I worked in back in the early 2000s had a Keurig single-serve coffee maker and used Green Mountain K-cups.
The transaction will be completed this month, but Swiss Re's U.K. operations will stay in the building as a tenant until 2031, holding 50% of the office space.
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