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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...There were no injuries and the ship, the Marshall Islands-flagged, US-owned and operated M/V Genco Picardy, sustained some damage but was “seaworthy and continuing under way”, Centcom said....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The only unqualified success in US democracy promotion was the Marshall Plan for postwar Europe....
...Puzzle 2447 Mark Hebden v Chris Baker, British championship, Eastbourne 1991. Can you find White’s winning move?...
...General George Marshall, architect of the plan that revitalised Europe after the second world war, was like Powell tapped to be secretary of state....
...Liberty Steel also announced that V Ashok, currently chief financial officer of GFG, would be stepping down “for personal reasons” at the end of May....
...The OECD turns 60 this year, having been formed out of the Organisation of European Economic Cooperation, which was set up after the second world war to help distribute Marshall Aid money....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Naushad Forbes, chairman of engineering company Forbes Marshall, called the GDP data “the worst performance in our history.”...
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...Gert-Jan Segers, leader of the Christian Union party that serves in the government with Mr Rutte, has called for a “Marshall Plan” for the south....
...So in the case of a deal, assuming 100% equity would seem most likely to us....
...Adult Space Academy is based at the US Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor centre for Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center....
...Sage is owned within its Real Estate Partners Europe V fund, an opportunistic fund, and could ultimately be sold or listed....
...The case was led by Thurgood Marshall, who would later become the first African-American Supreme Court justice....
...The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a controversial process used to determine patent disputes, handing a defeat to many small inventors who claim it has undermined the value of their work....
...The comments come as US defence secretary Jim Mattis (above) and his fellow Nato defence ministers meet in Brussels this week....
...(Marshall Project) Closing in on cancer People understandably focus on the potential for scientific breakthroughs that will deliver a cure for cancer....
...A £10bn claim by the administrators of Lehman Brothers’ European operations will come before London courts on Monday, more than eight years after the US investment bank collapsed....
...None of us, to be honest, knows what to make of the new entertainments, and how deliciously consuming they are....
...The final contest of the US primary season is currently under way....
...According to IBISWorld research, the size of the US and UK corporate wellness industry is now more than $8bn — and growing....
...He embodies Marshall McLuhan’s adage that the medium is the message....
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