• "Current Account Balance Estimates for Emerging Market Economies", by Leandro Medina, Jordi Prat and Alun Thomas.

    ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments

  • Fish came from Blanes, the first spring peas from Llavaneres, artichokes from El Prat de Llobregat.

    ECONOMIST: Santi Santamar��a

  • The deceptively innocuous little number is made with Noilly Prat Ambre, a sexy, honey-hued speciality only available here and nowhere else in the world.

    BBC: Postcard from Etang de Thau, France

  • Mid-table Espanyol lost 1-0 at the Nou Camp in December, but could have led at halftime in the first match between the two teams at the new Cornella-El Prat stadium.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Take something like Millionaire, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which is not really reality but it's the same sort of thing, you can be made to look a complete and utter prat within two questions on Millionaire, I know, because it's happened to me.

    BBC: Widdecombe and Hamilton interview transcript

  • Looked at broadly, the e-mails seem to show a pretty workaday picture of scientists, with frustrations and sloppinesses, disagreements, opponents badmouthed, and cultural differences bridged (for example, explaining to an American colleague not just why a particular person is a prat, but what a prat is in the first place).

    ECONOMIST: Leaked e-mails do not show climate scientists at their best

  • When I am asked whether presenting the Today programme makes me nervous, I usually answer that the very worst that can happen in live broadcasting is that one is left looking like a prat - the stakes are nothing like as high for us as they are for a surgeon or even a stockbroker with a widow's pension to look after.

    BBC: 'must meet praise with humility'

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