As the Bank struggles to find a way of controlling house prices without increasing interest rates and damaging the recovery, I am struck by a recent observation from my acquaintance Philipp Hildebrand, former governor of the Swiss Central Bank.
In an interesting essay on Crane's religious beliefs Gary Sloan quotes a comment the young writer made to an acquaintance: "I was a socialist for two weeks, but when a couple of socialists assured me I had no right to think differently from any other socialist and then quarrelled with each other about what socialism meant, I ran away".
In what promises to be a shuddering game, in which Bale and Charlie Adam can renew acquaintance, Scotland's firepower may just give them the edge over a Welsh side missing Craig Bellamy.
He describes arranging a football game on the first weekend with the children of a black acquaintance the Murphys had made.
Sannikov managed to text an acquaintance, saying: "I'm being taken to the KGB".
After Berry acquired a gun from an unspecified acquaintance, satisfied police allegedly drove her to a Dunkin' Donuts and let her go without charge.
Naeem, an acquaintance in Qeshm, has been smuggling fuels like petrol to Dubai since he was 14. "It's been lucrative," he tells me.
After a while the acquaintance in Leicester asked him to leave, saying that he and his wife needed their privacy.
The athlete then managed to make contact with an acquaintance who initially agreed that he could stay with him and his wife in Leicester.
Although an acquaintance, who also happened to be a member of the Nazi party, had rung their doorbell at 7.30 that morning and warned them that their business was due to be attacked that evening, Mr and Mrs Izbicki had refused to be intimidated and had gone to work as normal.
After one minute of discussion, Gill – an acquaintance of the cyclist – arrives at the scene.
