Hill & Knowlton its public relations arm has also been a poor performer incurring a
Hill & Knowlton, its public relations arm, has also been a poor performer, incurring a near- pounds 5m operating loss in the half-year.However, WPP's biggest millstone remains its huge debt burden which, despite the rights issue, averaged about pounds 330m on a pro forma basis against negative shareholders' funds of pounds 160m. Gerald Scarfe's richly layered designs were appropriately Egyptian, with singers costumed to resemble hieroglyphics. 'A lot of spies went on to write fiction - Somerset Maugham, the French agent Georges Ladoux, and Erskine Childers (who wrote The Riddle of the Sands). WHEN the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer stepped down from the Glass Coach, her face lit up with shyness and smiles, she adjusted her ivory silk wedding gown which had been slightly crushed in the coach, steadied herself, and then glided down the aisle of St Paul's Cathedral on the arm of her father, her 25ft train sweeping along behind her. It will enable Thames to eventually produce eight megawatts of electricity, enough to supply 6,000 households.Early next year the plant will export electricity to the National Grid through a contract awarded under the Government's 'green energy' programme.Tony De-Seta, Thames project manager, said Beckton was the largest power plant on a sewage treatment works outside the United States. When you get more senior in the team you get your own room, so those were the only occasions.Touring can really get you down, seeing the same faces all the time, so sharing the same outlook with Allan on many things has helped.
The juniors' blueprint is expected to come under strong attack from senior colleagues at the British Medical Association annual conference in Nottingham tomorrow.The conference will hear calls today for a more open debate about health-care rationing given the growing demands of an ageing population on the NHS. Even for a hardened vice squad officer, it was an unsettling experience.Sergeant Jeff Haywood, of the Nottinghamshire Constabulary, said: 'We do get the older ones complaining about what the younger ones get up to. Since then, they have been more cheaply carbonated, acquiring a coarser bubble and losing their complexity of flavour. Only half use a hotel safe and a quarter leave cash and valuables in a drawer, under their bed or in a bag. The documents most crying out for treatment were Mr Maxmin's own mission statements, management slogans, marketing guff and other jargon. 'I mean, when you leave the country you have to put it into storage.' It is as bad as a car, or a pet.Yet the sofa has established itself with considerable force in the 20th- century home.
Fears that US rates may rise again soon were exacerbated by figures showing an unexpectedly sharp 3.7 per cent rise last month in orders for US durable goods, such as cars and electronic goods.The markets fear the rest of the world may have to follow the American lead - if not raising interest rates then cutting them less dramatically. The evening starts here] And le tout Londres has obediently turned up. A couple of theft claims may be enough to put you in that category. In the Which? survey, 16 insurance companies were asked to give a quote for a three- bedroomed house in London with two theft claims, one of pounds 900 and another for pounds 1,400 in the same year. BRIGHTON last weekend had gone convention potty. A hard-hitting, no-punches-pulled drama series about the inability of the white man and the Australian aboriginal to get on together.Call My Bluff A revival of the old panel game, but with a difference. Baganda society was, and in many ways still is, slavishly hierarchical.
