Hints and tips:
...Dining cars were a rarity on my trips: one fellow traveller told me, “The key to using sleeper trains these days is a good Marks and Spencer’s salad.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Wine, inflation hedges and the greater fool theory / From John W Ward, Brewster, MA, US...
...Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, by Stephen Budiansky, W.W....
...Patrick Spencer, vice-chair of equities at Robert W Baird, said issues such as supply chain problems had already been priced in, with attention instead turning to the second-quarter earnings season and companies...
...These include John Vardy’s joyously flamboyant and quirky Spencer House (1756-66) with its wonderful statues of Bacchus, Ceres and Flora — well worth visiting its interiors by James “Athenian” Stuart, now...
...Robert Berkley, chief executive of W R Berkley, said he did not believe the risk was “overwhelming” for his company, but could hurt others....
...Credit Suisse prefers Marks & Spencer to Next. M&S first ......
...(A code preceded by a W on the back label denotes a wine bottled in the UK.)...
.../ From Philip T Foster, Albourne, W Sussex, UK...
...Currently standing in that in-between zone is W E Boone, a hardware store that has been on the site since 1820....
...The board has hired headhunters Spencer Stuart to find a successor....
...(FT) Brexit sandwich One of the guilty pleasures for Parisians is the Marks and Spencer sandwich....
...Or George W Bush’s immortal “Yo Blair!”? Most people would see a thumbs-up as no more than a professional courtesy between interviewer and interviewee....
...Michael Spencer, chief executive of NEX and a longstanding competitor of Mr Lutnick’s, played down the threat that the new platform poses to his business that has wrestled market share from eSpeed, the first...
...Howard Lutnick has set his sights on reclaiming a prime cut of US Treasury bond trading and challenging the dominance of rival Michael Spencer’s Nex Group....
...Marks and Spencer’s nude underwear extends only to white, black and a beige, which might otherwise be described as “pan stick”....
...Photographs of Stephen Westaby: Spencer Murphy...
...Mr Spencer’s work at Paddington, along the Eastbourne Terrace facade, which will be one of the first stations to open in 2018, has been sponsored by Heathrow Limited, the airport owners....
...Spencer Abraham, a former Republican senator from Michigan, said Mr Trump was “tapping into the Reagan Democrat bloc that allowed Reagan to carry Michigan twice” thanks to big wins in the blue-collar Detroit...
...Stuart Rose, former Marks and Spencer boss and chair of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, said: “They say that if you get 100 economists in the room you’ll get 100 different answers, but this survey...
...Mr John Barstow, Member, Usdaw Executive Council, Fittleworth, W Sussex, UK...
...They can at least have some fun fiddling with stock valuations, though even here Lord W plays a part by publishing a ceiling price for share buybacks....
...Phil Spencer: Today we’re helping Des Rez find a dream home for his “For Sale” listings....
...The works go on the block at Sotheby’s New York in November, with the highlight being “Jimson Weed (White Flower No 1)” (1932), which hung in the White House for six years during the George W Bush era....
...Spencer, a 22-year-old white man from St Louis city, said he had come out to Ferguson because “another black teenager has died and there’s no sign of repercussions or consequences”....
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