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...On Monday, US college football will crown a national champion, when the University of Michigan takes on the University of Washington....
...“Eric [Johnson] wouldn’t have wanted to be seen as selling off the crown jewels,” says one banker in Tokyo. “But you have to wonder if what happened will make anyone else pause before making a bid.”...
...Ambitious corporations frequently sought and obtained royal charters. They also regularly demanded the protection of the British Crown’s armed forces....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...On May 9 1921, George V held a state dinner for Crown Prince Hirohito at Buckingham Palace — the first time a Japanese heir-apparent had “ever left his native shores”, according to the king’s toast....
...The plan highlighted 10 key areas to bolster — from IT, robotics and new energy vehicles, through biotech and agricultural machinery, to aerospace, maritime and railway equipment — and promised to encourage...
...Part of the reason this road is being built is to allow oil equipment and construction equipment to get inside the park more easily....
...When the global financial crisis struck towards the end of the 2000s, there was a new round of opportunities as multinational corporations headed for the exit....
...Beijing is also willing to sell equipment to Gulf states that Washington is not — and it comes without political conditions....
...The equipment transforms solar power into microwave energy, then studies transmitting that energy to Earth. It remains in orbit. I'm Karen Jones. I work for the Aerospace Corporation....
...“These are very important in understanding today’s rucksacks – high-tech bags full of compartments and pockets – all of which originate from military equipment,” says Savi....
...And in February, it sold the company’s crown jewel, the air-to-air refuelling business Cobham Mission Systems, to Eaton Corporation for $2.83bn....
...Peter Karakchiev, Alrosa’s head of international relations, emphasises that this is not laser-marking, cannot be faked or polished out, and needs special equipment to be read....
...Actually, he has quite a few — a level of extravagance far beyond what the others enjoy, and beyond even the levels of some of the world’s largest corporations and their executives....
...China's biggest contract chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory are accelerating efforts to strip US equipment out of their production lines....
...bar it from receiving equipment needed for building cutting-edge chip production facilities....
...Similarly, local banks and corporations have grown into global multinationals. “They’re not as civically connected as they were,” Ravitch says....
...Read more United by the sting of US sanctions, Huawei and Russia have grown close to build their resistance to such threats and wean themselves off western technology and equipment. Read more...
...The struggle of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s largest computer chipmaker is a case in point....
...A V-shaped recovery is clearly emerging, notwithstanding subsequent waves. Elsewhere, it’s still too early to tell and is dependent on western demand....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...In “The Emerging”, black ceramic inverted V-shapes rise up from the ground....
...Back then, the automotive industry was retooled to do defence equipment. Now, apparel is shifting to make masks....
...Comcast Corporation has hired Marci Ryvicker as senior vice-president for investor relations. She was previously a managing director and senior equity analyst at Wolfe Research....
...“The influence of Japanese banks over corporations is waning,” says Haruo Nakamura, deputy president and head of investment banking at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities....
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