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Big-Name Winner Would Be Champion For Wentworth
IF IT'S true you can measure the greatness of a course by the quality of its champions then what on earth has been going on at Wentworth this past decade?
Cast your gaze down the list of champions from 1991 to 2000 at the BMW PGA Championship and it reads like a who's who of the European game: three wins for Monty, two for Langer, one for Seve, Ol ...
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Carter Wentworth
The "for sale" sign in the front yard of Carter Wentworth's home in Maine has been there since May, when the graphic designer was laid off. "I'm selling it as a fallback," he says of the house. "I really don't want to lose it."
The 57-year-old father lost his job unexpectedly. A manager at his Portsmouth, N.H.-based design company came to him one ...
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J.G. Wentworth and Peachtree Financial Solutions Seal Deal
J.G. Wentworth and Peachtree Financial Solutions, leaders in the secondary market for illiquid assets, today announced they have completed their transaction and are now owned by a newly formed and privately held holding company, JGWPT. J.G. Wentworth (www.jgwentworth.com ) is a market leader in the purchase of structured settlement payment streams. ...
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J.G. Wentworth Completes $265 Million Securitization
Specialty finance company J.G. Wentworth has completed a $265 million securitization of payment rights under structured settlement and fixed-annuity purchase contracts. J.G. Wentworth was the first issuer to securitize structured settlement payment streams in the asset-backed markets in 1997. Since then, the company has issued 23 securitizations ba ...
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Slow Weekend No 1 Wentworth Mansion
Embracing the slowdown We've moved so fast the past few years that we've forgotten the joys of going slowly. The economy may stink, but hey, it's summer. Take it easy. Savor it. Slowly
New money. In certain circles, no two words--except perhaps "Anna Nicole"--induce such horror and contempt.
Was Mr. Francis Silas Rodgers, a cotton merchant, con ...
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Wentworth Miller, The Human Stain
Good looks, good school (Princeton), pretty good Hollywood job (in development). But Wentworth Miller wanted to test himself as an actor. Voila, good luck. He won a starring role in the mini-series Dinotopia. Then he read the script for The Human Stain, from Philip Roth's novel about a professor looking back in regret on having kept the secret of h ...
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Wentworth No Fun Now
HERE we go again. Last year it was Miguel Angel Jimenez who likened the controversial changes at Wentworth to scrawling a line across a Picasso. Listening to Ian Poulter and Paul Casey yesterday, it's as if they've now added a moustache and a funny wig.
Said Poulter: 'I don't like this golf course, it is absolutely...' and at that point he bit his ...
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Wentworth on Course to Be Augusta of Europe
TWO years ago, the overriding feeling on the eve of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth was embarrassment at the absence of then Open champion Padraig Harrington. All too often, previous such occasions were dominated by recriminations at the absence of leading Americans.
What a contrast this time. This year the overwhelming mood is celebratory f ...
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Wentworth Opens New $3 Million Manufacturing Center
Wentworth Institute of Technology celebrated today a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new $3-million Manufacturing Center. The new facility will serve as an applications lab where students will gain hands-on experience working with the technology that is defining modern manufacturing. Students will be prepared to enter into rewarding careers that addr ...
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Wentworths Pocket of Gold
The finance company rules the business of helping people cash out annuities and legal settlements. Now an IPO could be on the horizon
Over the last 14 years, privately held J.G. Wentworth has mined a profitable but largely overlooked niche of the vast finance market. The company, based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., allows people who are receiving fixed payme ...
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Will it Be Third Time Lucky in Spain for Pleasington and Wentworth
TWO of the England's top clubs will bid to make it third time lucky at the finals of The Mail on Sunday Classic in El Rompido, Spain this week.
Pleasington's women's team (1998 and 2008) and Wentworth's men (1995 and 2000) have twice reached the Grand Finals and failed to win one of golf's most prestigious trophies.
Pleasington captain Val Hyman ...
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