His brief is to restructure this ragbag of stakes to free capital for Allianz's core businesses.

ECONOMIST: The poacher as gamekeeper

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Denmark's Social Democratic prime minister, whose ragbag coalition was unexpectedly re-elected in March, stoutly defends the Amsterdam treaty.

ECONOMIST: Denmark and the European Union

As well as WallStrip, Last.fm and MaxPreps, he bought a ragbag of other Internet businesses, including video site Joost and online advertising start-up SpotRunner.

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By contrast the Republic's No campaigners are a ragbag of tiny groups and individuals, largely in the far southern counties of Cork and Kerry.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

So for all its wooing, Telekom is left with a ragbag of minority stakes in Europe and Asia and not much at all in America.

ECONOMIST: The world beyond Deutsche Telekom | The

English has always been a ragbag, and that encouraged further permissiveness.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

Architecturally it is a ragbag of features popularised by Sinan.

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