Hints and tips:
...I did use his name again, correctly, and gave the audience a thumbs up. They erupted in laughter, as did I, and I finished smoothly....
...A final thumbs-up from the CMA would leave Sony clear to proceed with the tie-up, which had already been cleared by regulators in the US and Austria....
...It matters to the women of Citi, who flooded professional network LinkedIn with virtual thumbs ups and supportive comments after the announcement....
...Wednesday, after Ms Trump’s post began attracting criticism, the president posted his own photo, posing in the Oval Office with a row of Goya products, all neatly lined up on the Resolute desk, and flashing a thumbs-up...
...Histories team, reads his own work in winningly enthusiastic fashion (one reviewer of the print version likened him to a “frisky, over-caffeinated love child of Dan Snow and Marina Hyde”, which is, I guess, a thumbs-up...
...Goldman Sachs and Citigroup both got the thumbs up from more than 90 per cent of investors at their latest round of “say on pay” votes, which all banks must hold under the post-financial crisis Dodd-Frank...
...A tweet that has 500 likes looks more popular than a post that harvests three thumbs up....
...Although Glass Lewis recommended voting against Mr Hill’s reappointment, he received the thumbs up from holders of 96.5 per cent of the shares voted....
...It may be early days for the Finnish recovery, but the government’s attempts at much-vaunted structural reforms have got the thumbs up from economists at Citi....
...Not all deals received a thumbs-up from shareholders....
...The report, published on its website and publicised on Gotham’s Twitter feed, inverted the company’s “thumbs up” logo and questioned the size of Gowex’s turnover in relation to its small number of sales...
...At Happy, employees are “preapproved”, which means that individuals have the freedom to get on with a task without asking their boss for a thumbs-up, albeit within strict parameters and under a clear performance...
...Passing motorists would slow down to look at it and fellow Airstream drivers would give a thumbs-up as they passed....
...Koch gained national fame and became a familiar face on the city’s streets, accosting passers-by with his signature thumbs-up and catchphrase question: “How’m I doin’?”...
...Pension funds, for example, gave a thumbs-up to a trio of asset classes that became mainstream in the noughties; emerging market equities and bonds and high yield bonds....
...Markets this morning are giving a tentative thumbs up to Italy’s Mario Monti, prime minister-designate who has started consultations with heads of all the political parties in parliament on the composition...
...Shares in the retailer rose almost 5 per cent after analysts gave the thumbs up to the new format when they were shown two pilot Planets in Lyons, France....
...For the rest of us, the only sensible thing to do was to sit back, let Mr Osborne drone on and wait for the Institute of Fiscal Studies – the vestal virgins of the British economy – to give the thumbs up...
...Standard & Poor’s, which over the last week delivered worrying assessments of countries including Greece, Spain, Ireland and New Zealand, in contrast gave Australia a thumbs-up when it affirmed its triple...
...Quality is measured by thumbs, up or down. Scholarly analyses have turned into irrelevant extravagances for snobs. Many US papers have abandoned thoughtful, detailed reviews altogether....
...up signal.”...
...Analysts on Wall Street on Wednesday gave a thumbs up to the $4.9bn hostile takeover bid by BASF, the German chemicals giant, for Engelhard, the US maker of catalysts and pigments....
...Swiss Re, the world’s second biggest reinsurer, put in Friday’s best performance as the market gave a belated thumbs-up to Thursday’s interim results and announcement of a management reshuffle....
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