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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...The production is tied into a process that synchronises all of the videos, lights, sound et cetera....
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...Meanwhile, El Salvador’s government is planning a volcano-fuelled bitcoin city that will also function as a tax haven....
...And there is, predictably, competition on the horizon, including the ambitious renovation of the city’s other historical landmark, the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, which has opened with a restaurant and roof...
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...Bridgett Mitchell, a black woman who has been to several O’Rourke rallies, also likened him to Mr Obama, but said others saw him as “the next Bobby Kennedy” because of his stance on race and civil rights...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Equally exasperating: he has left on the keyboard all those stickers from Intel et al that PCs come with new. They are so disfiguring, I want to reach over and rip them off....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photographs: Richard Davis/De Havilland Aircraft Museum; V&A; Estate of Bertrand Goldberg; Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace’; HB-13583-H, Chicago...
...The DoJ’s intervention set up one of the biggest antitrust showdowns since it sought to block AT&T’s attempted $39bn takeover of T-Mobile USA in 2011....
...Digital news TV switch While newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting...
...*Yoshimura Y et al, 2014, ‘An analysis of visitors’ behavior in The Louvre Museum: a study using Bluetooth data’ Photograph: Christian Marquardt...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...V: Oh Lord, grant us success in this, our mission. Or, at the least, a favourable write-up in the Daily Telegraph. In the name of Al Gore, the Oiled Pelican and the Proxy Voting Form, Amen. C: Amen....
...The book trade may be held up by the blockbusters – JK Rowling, Stieg Larsson, EL James et al, but Foyles’ market is different....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Last weekend’s Olympic bash – Mr Bean, James Bond et al – celebrated the way that British culture has resounded all around the world. But there are more subtle ways to win friends and influence people....
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