slate clean may not be so easy as he hoped. In the words of one analyst
from stockbrokers Salomon Brothers International, ‘The credibility of
anybody involved in that company is minus seven on the Richter scale.’
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4 Ibid.
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6 Lex Column, Financial Times, 12 September 1990.
7 Reuter News Service, 11 September 1990.
8 Tempus Column, The Times, 12 September 1990.
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13 ENDS Report 183, April 1990, 18.
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