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...Smart reads Bankruptcy in Texas Houston has been a favoured city for cash-strapped companies and corporations with large legal liabilities to find shelter from creditors....
...It also pumps out annual ESG reports, short for environmental, social and governance, as well as “journey to sustainability” reports and “culture, diversity, equity and inclusion” reports....
...For all the others, it’s $1mn for . . . something.) 1) Frosted Inc (Whop) Frosted Inc was a subscription-based platform for drop shippers which appears to have offered features such as identifying what...
...Today, China churns out half of the world’s refrigerator and washing machine production and 85 per cent of air conditioners, according to Panasonic....
...Scientists have spent decades trying to crack solid-state batteries, which use a solid rather than a liquid electrolyte....
...Among the photographer’s subjects were President Gerald Ford and his three immediate successors, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, statesmen such as Henry Kissinger and the scions of famous...
...There is little room for optimism on house prices either, as these seem set for a further fall in 2019. Howard Davies, chairman, RBS A little, as long as petrol pump prices keep falling....
...From the other side, from the supply side, it’s defined as consumption plus investments. So in a closed system savings is equal to investment. But of course the world is a closed system....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...He consistently sought to subordinate his own personality to that of the corporation he helped to shape....
...This has spurred Mr Kastner to hold “liquid” fixed-income securities – or those that can more easily be sold....
...Installing an air-cooling system costs about $100m at an average-sized plant, say industry analysts, and also reduces efficiency because the plant needs to burn more coal to produce electricity to operate...
...As a result, he adds, Russian air defence systems such as the S-300 and S-400 are the best in the world because Soviet strategic planners invested heavily in air defence, perceiving a gap in aviation....
...Highest on their priority list are projects to turn coal into gas and liquid fuels....
...remain in place as the US was still the most liquid and one of the most stable investment destinations in the world....
...As interest rate hawk and rock guitar aficionado Andrew Sentance prepares to leave the monetary policy committee in May, Treasury mandarins have been trawling the economist community for a successor to fill...
...is returned to private ownership as Japan deregulates its air travel market....
...He was a director of BankAmerica Corporation from 1993 to 1998 and currently also serves as a director of McDonald’s Corporation....
...But the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under Sheila Bair, its politically powerful chairman, is among the regulators arguing that the new council is perfectly capable in the practice as well as the...
...Name: Tim Lenton Age: 36 Nationality: British Position: Professor of Earth Systems Science, University of East Anglia Expertise: Earth systems science Tim Lenton is James Lovelock’s anointed successor....
...Her plans to retire this year had to be put on hold when US businessman Chip Goodyear withdrew his candidacy as her successor. 11 Name: Patricia Ann Woertz Nationality: American Age: 56 Company: Archer...
...(The club had been among the many playthings Messier bequeathed to his successors, along with a 3,000-work art collection, a palazzo in Venice and a good-sized private air force, including a helicopter,...
...That means the company will increasingly have to look elsewhere and rely on high-cost production such as the Canadian oil sands and the Pearl project in Qatar to convert natural gas into liquid fuels....
...to control lighting, heating and air conditioning utilities, appliances and security systems wirelessly from virtually anywhere....
...As oil spurted from the $30s to the $70s during the past few years, as the price of petrol at the pump in the US exploded from about $1.50 to nearly $3.00, as copper quadrupled, the handwringing was all...
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