Lord, Lord, Lord!" She flailed her arms.
Japan's mighty banks were lording it over international loan markets, and financiers across emerging Asia were riding high on a wave of phenomenal economic growth, propelled by soaring property and equity markets.
They are favourites to reach the final of the Clydesdale Bank 40 at Lord's, for which the reserve day (in case of rain) is Sunday 18 September – two days before their opening match in India.
IF Gordon Brown, the prime minister, claims that he saved Britain's banking system, can Lord Mandelson, his business secretary, style himself the saviour of its car industry?
The drainage of farmland behind the banks was stopped, reflooding the former marshland; zigzag ditches were dug, and pillboxes built into Old Lord's Bank.
The draining of Norfolk's coastal marshes commenced in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and sea defences including the "Old Lord's Bank" at Titchwell were shown in maps from 1786 and 1797.
On a law-enforcement wiretap, one drug lord extolled the bank as "the place to launder money".
You may hurt your neighbors' feelings (or pride) by lording your larger bank account over them in writing, thereby assuring their noncooperation.
And the victory coincided with the once-a-year invitation I extend to my bank manager, and also with the lord mayor's show.
Former director of public prosecutions Lord Ken Macdonald said the bank had left itself open to criminal charges in the UK and there were strong grounds to investigate the bank for "cheating" HM Revenue and Customs.
Federal prosecutors charged that it was the preferred bank of terrorist organizations and drug lords.
