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  • So far John Reith is shaping up to be quite a dictator both at work and at home and his daughter's perspective, as a sibling to John Reith's other child, the BBC, is a compelling one.

    Sunday Confessions on Thursday 2007

  • So far John Reith is shaping up to be quite a dictator both at work and at home and his daughter's perspective, as a sibling to John Reith's other child, the BBC, is a compelling one.

    40 entries from September 2007 2007

  • So far John Reith is shaping up to be quite a dictator both at work and at home and his daughter's perspective, as a sibling to John Reith's other child, the BBC, is a compelling one.

    Sunday Confessions on Thursday 2007

  • "Reith," she whispered and held out a hand, and he crossed the room in two long strides.

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • "Reith," she whispered over and over to herself and it was almost a prayer.

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • "The guidance for the fourth quarter is disappointing," said Hermann Reith, a steel analyst at BHF Bank in Frankfurt.

    ArcelorMittal Warns of Weak Demand Devon Maylie 2010

  • BHF Bank analyst Hermann Reith also welcomed the strategic shift.

    ThyssenKrupp Shares Soar on Revamp Plans Jan Hromadko 2011

  • She has argued that it may be impossible to draft safe legislation for assisted dying, while her Reith lecture on trust and accountability proved the most controversial to date in 2002, when she argued that imposing more control on the public sector and trying to make employees ever more accountable harmed their ability to do their jobs.

    Onora O'Neill | Top 100 women 2011

  • He also pointed me to Oxford zoologist JZ Young's 1950 BBC Reith lectures entitled "Doubt and Certainty in Science".

    John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012

  • Sir John Reith, the first director-general of the BBC, liked to say that his policy was to give the public "something rather better than it thinks it wants."

    PBS Programming Continues to Aim Low Terry Teachout 2011

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