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• Forever young: myth, reality and William Pitt: R. E. Foster examines the career of Pitt the Younger.(PROFILES IN POWER)(Biography)

  - 2009-03-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Young Man in a Hurry: 1759-1783 William Pitt is, in some respects, an unlikely political icon. A delicate child, he was described as a man by H. A. Bruce as a 'tall, ungainly, bony figure'. Pitt was...

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• A round trip to a loved inn!

  - 2006-08-14

  New proof of a local party's long affection WHY did a party from Huddersfield, assumed to be mill owners, make the long journey by horse and carriage in the 1880s, and so frequently over a long period of years, to a little country inn in the heart of Wensleydale?...

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• Name calling: marketing consultant says insurers need to take a risk with their advertising.(William Pitt of HawkPartners)(Interview)

  - 2005-06-01

  Too many insurance ads are bland and boring. That's the opinion of William Pitt, a senior adviser at marketing consultants HawkPartners. He wonders why banks are so successful at building brands, but insurance companies aren't. "I think there is a certain irony that insurers are about...

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• William Pitt the Younger

  - 2005-02-01

  William Pitt the Younger. William Hague. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxv + 652 pages. ISBN 0-00-714719-8. Pitt's place in history is based on his war against revolutionary France, his reform of government finances and his role in the creation of what became the Conservative party. Whilst John Ehrman's three-volume study of...

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• Storied William Pitt agency to join Sotheby's

  - 2005-01-19

  Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates, Inc., a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD), today announced that it has entered into a franchise agreement with William Pitt Real Estate, LLC. William Pitt Real Estate is a luxury market leader based in Stamford, Conn., that accounted for more than $2 billion in closed...

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• Sotheby's Realty merges with William Pitt offices in Connecticut.

  - 2005-01-06

  By Chris Bosak, The Hour, Norwalk, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6--NORWALK, Conn. -- The sign in front of 162 East Ave. has changed and the phones inside the office are answered just a little differently, but otherwise it's...

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• William Pitt the Elder

  - 2003-01-01

  William Pitt the Elder The British statesman William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), was one of the most striking political figures of the 18th century. Known as the Great Commoner, he served as war minister under George II and led Britain to victory over the French. William...

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• William Pitt the Younger

  - 2003-01-01

  William Pitt the Younger The English statesman William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) introduced important financial and administrative reforms, girded England for war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and attempted to solve the perennial Irish problem. The second son of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, the younger William Pitt was...

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• A taxing party for the big-figure birthday of William Pitt the younger's bad idea

  - 1998-12-12

  I do not seem to have been invited to the two hundredth birthday celebrations for the Income Tax, though I have certainly chipped in my share. No doubt it was thought that I would behave badly. I certainly regard this tax as one of William Pitt the Younger's three disastrous...

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• That William Pitt would never have made a William Hague

  - 1997-07-19

  According to supporters of William Hague, we have another Pitt the Younger on our hands. But could William Pitt have been another William Hague? That is, if Pitt were alive today is it likely that he would attain high office? Somehow I doubt it. For one thing his appearance would...

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