Appointed head of the RBS investment bank in October 2008, in the wake of the UK Government's £20bn bailout, he slashed the worthless derivatives and mortgage loans on its balance sheet and sacked 10,000 people.
She is a woman who can pull off a sack or sheet with poise, as she proved in her Bagism and bed-in days.
Further down on Potrobello Road, the Cloth Shop is terrific source of French vintage sheets and grain sacks, in addition to dark green Lorraine jars from France and pale blue Ball jars from America.
Bartlett's family, tenant farmers in western Pennsylvania, was so poor that his mother sewed clothes and sheets from feed sacks.
The gift can be wrapped in an old newspaper, or use a brown sheet of paper or grocery sacks, add a festive bow or red ribbon.
Nussbaum wore nylon athletic shorts and a T-shirt, and carried her sheet music in a hippie-style embroidered sack.
And for five months they haven't gotten a single sack of cement, or single sheet of plaster.
A private-equity firm might rip out divisions, sack people and load the balance sheet with high-yield debt.
Thrifty sewers learned to re-use old shirts, curtains, sheets, and even flour sacks to produce warm, beautiful, and practical quilts.
They disappeared beneath sheets of cement years ago, in the notorious Sack of Palermo, which began in the 50s when the mafia first got their hands on public works money.
