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THE ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS/New Zealand (Director and Screenwriter: Pietra Brettkelly) — Vanessa Beecroft is obsessively determined to adopt Sudanese twin orphans.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007
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Croft or Craft, a small field, is common in compounds such as Beecroft or Bearcroft (barley), Haycraft (see hay, below), Oscroft (ox), Rycroft, Meadowcroft.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Vince Cable, the business secretary, rejected Beecroft's proposal for sacking staff at will with a simple compensation payment.
Nick Clegg vetoes Conservative donor's idea to help firms sack workers 2011
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Government sources say that while there has been a row in Whitehall there has been no bust up over Beecroft among the coalition's most senior ministers.
Rethink on managing coalition after Nick Clegg rejects No 10 report 2011
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But the positioning over the Beecroft report has given minsters pause for thought on how to run the coalition.
Rethink on managing coalition after Nick Clegg rejects No 10 report 2011
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Hilton had hoped the idea in Beecroft's report, saying employers ought to be able to sack "unproductive" workers without explanation, would feed into the chancellor's thinking for "supply side" reform of the labour market.
Nick Clegg vetoes Conservative donor's idea to help firms sack workers 2011
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A senior Whitehall source said: The Beecroft proposal would have the reverse effect to that intended.
Nick Clegg vetoes Conservative donor's idea to help firms sack workers 2011
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The deputy prime minister has told Downing Street that the idea, outlined by the venture capitalist and Tory donor Adrian Beecroft, would have a "chilling effect" on the labour market.
Nick Clegg vetoes Conservative donor's idea to help firms sack workers 2011
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"Today's releases are definitely not 'mandate-consistent' for the Federal Reserve," said Nick Beecroft , senior markets consultant at Saxo Bank "And will cause the market to push its expected timing for rate increases even further out."
European Stocks Wilt on Greece Worries Andrea Tryphonides 2011
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Clegg is understood to have made clear that he would not allow the most controversial aspects of the Beecroft proposals to pass the "quad" – the coalition's key decision making body attended by Cameron, Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander.
Rethink on managing coalition after Nick Clegg rejects No 10 report 2011
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