Jeff Tarango of the United States upset his second-seeded countryman Vincent Spadea 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in the in the first day of play in the $1 million Kremlin Cup tournament in Moscow today.
The 31-year-old Tarango took a 3-1 lead early in the first set but in the ninth game at 40-30 he double-faulted and then [...]

Share options are very much a long-term bet, which is why they are dubbed “golden handcuffs”.Holway’s comments are borne out by Computacenter, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in May 1998. It nestles in the FTSE top 200 – making it an OK bet as far as shares go – but in the last [...]

There is a problem in reading this memoir now, before we have seen the film that it is primarily concerned with. Simon Birch, the recent, ill-regarded film inspired by Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, is not even mentioned – suggesting a depth of feeling on Irving’s part that he is not ready to plumb. [...]

The audience analysis defines the general categories of people who are likely to visit it, what their motivations are for visiting, and what their expectations will be at the site. Now you are in the same room with the client for the first time, face-to-face. What information do you want to leave that room with?”Basically, [...]

The missing ball turned up in his locker, a valuable but unauthorised memento for him.
Whenever you see a Premiership fourth official on television, he will, in fact, be just that — the fourth official. However, the standby in a Nationwide fixture will usually not be the ‘fourth official’ but the ‘reserve official’, perhaps a local [...]

Those who believed size was progress must have thought it represented the future. As far as we can tell, it was a dispenser of entertainment and news (though they made little distinction between the two in those days) formed by a merger of half a dozen giants. At the time, it must have seemed as [...]

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