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...Alongside businesses such as Caran d’Ache, Faber-Castell, ST Dupont, and Smythson — which all specialise in stationery and writing instruments — jewellers such as Cartier and Chopard are offering pens as...
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Pete Wehner, a former speech writer for George W Bush, said Mr Pruitt had gained favour with Mr Trump by being loyal and enacting the president’s deregulatory agenda....
...executives now in prominent roles elsewhere include Frank Bisignano at First Data, Mike Cavanagh at Comcast, Charlie Scharf at Visa, Bill Winters at Standard Chartered and Scott Powell at Santander Holdings USA...
...“It’s a mess — he’s going to be subpoenaed [and] deposed,” says Richard Painter, a former chief ethics lawyer for President George W Bush....
...The photos in Mr Duffy’s office include those of former presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and his father, George HW Bush....
...The site said a number of hotel chains had stopped charging for WiFi, but in April it listed 10, including Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and Starwood Hotels brands such as W, Westin and Sheraton, that still did...
...In the case of Time Inc and Tribune, the print groups have also been saddled with a considerable amount of debt....
...W.W. Norton Ltd, February 2014...
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
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...Strategy: A History, by Lawrence Freedman, OUP USA, RRP£25/$34.95 The word “strategy” is much used and abused by businessmen, politicians and military men....
...Bodies backed by industrialists Charles and David Koch, the Crossroads group cofounded by Karl Rove, George W....
...Mr Lukken, also a Republican, is seen by the industry as a relatively bipartisan figure with a detailed understanding of derivatives trading and clearing....
...of the new book Power, Inc about the rivalry between big business and government....
...“Technically, stocks enjoy a seasonal tailwind early in the first quarter,” said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Robert W Baird, who said the S&P 500 could be set for “an attack on the 1,300...
...The announcement by the Department of Justice on Wednesday challenging AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile USA came with much of the usual criticism of such deals – that it would lessen competition and hurt consumers...
...George W....
...Perhaps the chief executive of a real-life USA Inc could have finagled a triple C by pointing out the discrepancy....
...A memorial to the passengers of Flight 93 was dedicated on Saturday, with Vice-president Joe Biden and former presidents George W....
...The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week reported that Prosperity USA, a Wisconsin tax-exempt charity, contributed more than $38,000 through a group called Friends of Herman Cain to his campaign....
...Thomas W Hazlett is professor of law and economics at George Mason University...
...These cases stood in contrast to the easy passage of the two most high-profile mergers during George W. Bush’s years in office....
...This month the White House announced a deal on revisions to a free-trade agreement with South Korea that could pave the way for Congressional approval....
...Music A Singer’s Notebook, by Ian Bostridge, Faber, RRP£16.99 A slender but thought-provoking volume of essays by the tenor Ian Bostridge, ranging from his obsessive interest in phlegm – that’s as in spit...
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