12 DECEMBER 1987, page 29

Every Virtue, Every Grace

- THANK you for the cardinal virtues. Asked what I looked for in assessing a company, and feeling that my answers honesty, competence, flair — had left something out, I appealed......

Pep Talk

THE sales have begun early, and earliest, of course, in the stock market. One third- off a wide range of British equities — last spring's fashions reduced by more than half......

City And Suburban

Time for the airlines' tetchy trustee to get out of competition's way CHRISTOPHER FILDES A flying circus — but whose? Paul Channon's, Lord Young's, Lord King's, the......

The Barchester Touch

THE scene is in a tropical country, by the side of a dam. Enter dancing girls. They are performing in honour of Barber Con- able, chairman of the World Bank, which has financed......