City And Suburban
Card school can teach companies how not to wait for their cash CHRISTOPHER FILDES M y card school at Oxford accidentally re-invented the bill of exchange. It could be a......
Third World
AN OFFER I can refuse reaches me from Sir James Whitaker, chairman of a new company called London's Third City PLC. This grandly named concern will invest in houses and flats in......
Crunch Point
TO SEE where all the cash has gone, look at the evidence now piling up from the High Street banks. The results confirm that 1990 was a year of unprecedented bad debts at home —......
Wether Or Not
MY SYMPATHY goes to Sir Denys Hen- derson. This week he has suffered the double indignity of publishing dismal fig- ures as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and hearing......
The Back-office Creep
TWO classes of big company are naturals for the Jowett treatment. The first General Electric Company is the textbook example — has a huge pile of cash, but did not pile it up by......
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