Nick Clegg even had a populist name for it - the "tycoon tax".

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But day-to-day, Ford is run by an Englishman, Sir Nick Scheele, who made his name turning round Jaguar, Ford's upmarket British subsidiary.

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The name of the man who sold those Japanese options was Nick Leeson.

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Enhanced Editions, a U.K. book-app publisher founded in 2008, released enhanced titles from big-name authors such as Stephen King, Barack Obama, Nick Cave and Hilary Mantel.

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Olazabal was vice-captain to Nick Faldo in last September's defeat in Louisville, but while he thought about whether to put his name forward for Celtic Manor, Montgomerie agreed to stand and was subsequently appointed by the European Tour's players' committee.

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This got me thinking about how collaboration fright may be the biggest barrier to an idea called mesh collaboration that Andy Mulholland, CTO of Capgemini, and Nick Earle, senior vice president of European markets at Cisco Systems , developed in their recent book of the same name.

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