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Family Finance: The carpetbaggers won't go away Gregor Paul looks at the increasing sophistication and guile of activists intent on forcing mutuals to go public and generate windfalls for their members
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The business of trying to force mutually-owned institutions to
convert into public companies used to be the exclusive preserve of
publicity-hungry eccentrics. But, like all sports, carpetbagging has
progressively become more professional. Over the past year, part-
time players have gradually been forced to make way for
sophisticated investors who see building societies and life
insurance companies as treasure chests waiting to be opened.
The term carpetbaggers was coined after the American Civil War to
describe unscrupulous Yankees who stuffed all their possessions into
a carpet bag and ...
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Mid Anglia Radio board backs pounds 3.5m GWR offer
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...under the nose of its neighbour, East Anglia Radio, adding to the pace of commercial...significantly higher than the pounds 2m East Anglia Radio was prepared to pay when...18 months ago. A few weeks ago East Anglia wrote to Mid Anglia to suggest...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Midlands based Nord Anglia snubs pounds 180m bid; EDUCATION.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...offer will be made . Nord Anglia's International Schools...central Europe and the Far East, offering a British...teaching staff. Nord Anglia's other branch, the...Council. Last year Nord Anglia opened international preschools...in Asia and the Middle East. In its recent interim...
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Baring a quick study in Nord Anglia takeover; TRAINING SERVICES.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...represented an excellent opportunity for Nord Anglia shareholders. Baring has its eye on Nord Anglia's healthy prospects for its international...schools across Central Europe and the Far East. Nord Anglia chairman Alan Kelsey said: The offer represents...
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School's in as Nord Anglia looks out on bright future; EDUCATION.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...international school there. Nord Anglia said Qatar is an ideal...economies in the Middle East and has a rapidly growing...In April 2008, Nord Anglia won a contract worth pounds...opportunities in the Middle East, where it was awarded...three years, sees Nord Anglia manage an additional ...
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Taking learning to the people ; UNIVERSITIES ++ Who says a university should confine itself to one or two sites? As Anglia Ruskin opens centres all over eastern England, Lucy Hodges looks at a new model for the future
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...parent institution," says Thorne. Anglia Ruskin University is planning to open...Cambridge - in conurbations all over the east of England. The first will be in Peterborough...conjunction with the College of West Anglia which is moving to a new site in the...
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"Short o" in East Anglia and New England.
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
; ...whole, and home is recorded for East Anglia." It is definitely tempting to...between the two phenomena in East Anglia and New England. Further linguistic...Kurath's linkage to northern East Anglia is as follows. In the case of...
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Proposed changes to East Anglia and South East regional planning guidances published.
M2 Presswire
; ...GOVERNMENT: Proposed changes to East Anglia and South East regional planning...Regional Planning Guidance for East Anglia and the South East are published...Regional Planning Guidance for East Anglia endorse the housing target of around...
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Town and country: history buffs and nature lovers especially will be charmed by England's rural East Anglia. (Destination: Europe).
Magazine article from: Travel Agent
; The kingdom of East Anglia dissolved about 1,000 years ago...the public in spring and summer). East Anglia is the home of one of Europe's top...tend to stick to the major cities, East Anglia certainly should be recommended to...
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People in East Anglia are storing up last minute pension panic, says FSA.
M2 Presswire
; ...2002-UK Government: People in East Anglia are storing up last minute pension...LTD RDATE:05312002 People in East Anglia are storing up a nasty shock for...25 years. A survey of people in East Anglia aged 18 or over who are working...
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Radical East Anglia: Peter Clark celebrates some of the 'awkward squad' associated with eastern England.(TRAVEL TO THE PAST)
Magazine article from: History Today
; East Anglia is different. It is not on the road to...been the second city of the kingdom but East Anglia missed out on the Industrial Revolution...the longest strike in history'. East Anglia was also the birthplace of perhaps England...
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