• It is also a risky one for Brown, whose 142, 000-person firm has long bragged to clients it can be trusted as "technologically agnostic, " unlike the services unit at rival IBM.

    FORBES: Scare Tactics

  • It is also a risky one for Brown, whose 142, 000-person company has long bragged to clients it can be trusted as "technologically agnostic, " unlike the services unit at its rival IBM.

    FORBES: Scare Tactics

  • He has written to Gordon Brown saying it is a matter of "urgency", given the speculation about a snap election.

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  • If the new object were a captured alien, it could give astronomers their first good look at an extra-solar planet, or a brown dwarf if that is what it turns out to be.

    ECONOMIST: X marks the spot

  • Which, perhaps, make it rather laudable that Mr Brown is having a go.

    ECONOMIST: Constitutional reform

  • For Mr Brown, it is simply a matter of being able to build lots of schools and hospitals which his celebrated fiscal prudence would not otherwise allow.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • It is believed that a mint worker named Samuel Brown made the coin, managing to change the die in order to create a coin bearing a bogus date.

    BBC: Rare Liberty Head nickel sells for $3.1m

  • It is not likely that Greg Brown and the new Icahn influenced regime is likely to have a lot of success repairing Motorola anytime soon.

    FORBES: Icahn's Motorola Morass

  • But many of the names are still deep in the red from the earlier disasters, and it is to them that Mr Brown has thrown a lifeline.

    ECONOMIST: The Lloyd's insurance market

  • The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.

    BBC: Escaping modern life in Zambia��s north

  • It is another blow for Brown in his desperate pursuit to sign another striker for a Hull side that is among the favourites for Premier League relegation this season.

    BBC: Hull call off McCormack pursuit

  • It also doesn't hurt Brown that Boston is a financial hub, home to companies like FMR and Bain Capital.

    FORBES

  • Indeed, if there is a spiritual godfather of Britain's punk politicians, it is that old Celtic headbanger, Gordon Brown.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming the state

  • Despite a plea for haste from Mr Brown, it is not expected until towards the end of the year.

    ECONOMIST: Expenses-gate

  • Mr Blair and the chancellor may have agreed a truce, but it is premature to conclude that Mr Brown has really come into line.

    ECONOMIST: Pension reform

  • "While I think a lot of people will try to prevent the holding company from failing, I don't think it is too big to fail, " said Thomas Brown, a hedge fund manager at Second Curve Capital and a long-time banking analyst, of Countrywide's situation.

    FORBES: Countrywide Is On Its Side

  • "It's a public forum for what is basically private information, " Brown said.

    CNN: Facebook inspires status envy

  • Nietzel says the most common place the clues about "where warm waters halt" first lead people is to Eagle Nest Lake, about 100 miles north of Santa Fe, because it has a dam that holds back warm water and is known for its brown trout.

    NPR: 'I Love Mysteries,' Says Man Claiming Hidden Gold

  • Unfortunately, even with the determined support of Gordon Brown, it's far from clear that this is a fight he can win.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • It is less than a decade since the Tory government made a mistake that Mr Brown seems to be in danger of emulating.

    ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown and the Bank

  • If a sizeable number of Labour backbenchers decide to vote against, this will be a blow to Gordon Brown's authority even thought it is not being whipped.

    BBC: Martha Kearney's week

  • But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.

    FORBES: Iraq - but not as you know it.

  • Nor is it Mr Brown's fault that his succession was followed by a dip in the impressively consistent economic growth over which, as chancellor, he presided, and by biting rises in the price of energy and food over which he has little control.

    ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown: The agony of Gordon Brown | The

  • In that respect, Google is playing it smart by only linking 25%, says Jill Brown, a professor of management at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

    FORBES: Hey Google Investors, What Do You Think of Larry Page's Sales Incentive Now?

  • Today BBC R4, 2nd July 1997 It's budget day and the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, is later announce a cut in VAT on domestic fuel.

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  • Landscape painters struggled with treacherous greens that turn brown and with the irksome fact that brown itself is not a natural hue (try finding it in a rainbow).

    ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour

  • It is this apocalyptic ambiance that, in part, drives a young broker named Josh Brown to register a WordPress account and a domain name two weeks later as a place to vent and commune with his fellow survivors online.

    FORBES: The Lehman Moment Turns Four

  • It is highly controversial and last week Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave in to demands for a free vote on the issue.

    BBC: UK's first hybrid embryos created

  • That will help the prime minister go out on a high next May (or thereabouts) and offer Mr Brown the chance to lead a stable government that knows where it is going.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • But while that incident is the stand-out memory from the Diouf-Brown duel, it was a confrontation that ebbed and flowed throughout the match, with Diouf on at least a couple of occasions leaving Brown trailing in his wake with some deft touches.

    BBC: Brown & Diouf re-match adds spice to Old Firm derby

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