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...Denholm Elliott’s version just looked so good. It’s perhaps a virtue not a failing that when you reach the end of this book you find yourself wondering about the omissions....
...Yet the likely disposal of the division — at the behest of activist shareholders Cevian and Elliott, which own a combined stake similar to the size of the foundation’s — has prompted a fierce backlash from...
...Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age, by Stephen Platt, Atlantic Books, RRP£25/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$35 Stephen Platt, author of a prizewinning book on the mid-19th century...
...Today the company’s management will explain in more detail its vision for the future of Akzo, one of Europe’s oldest industrial concerns with roots to the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel....
...During five years at the helm of the group, which traces its roots to Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, Mr Büchner has concentrated on making Akzo Nobel a more efficient operation....
...This is because they used to feed on our dead, excuse enough to detest them,” wrote Rifleman Alfred Read, 1/18th London Regiment....
...This professor of political science at Harvard, then in his late fifties, was sought out by three well-connected visiting Canadians: Alfred Apps, Dan Brock and Ian Davey....
...are studying the possibility of making a bid for Compuware, setting up a potential takeover battle for the business software maker less than a year after it spurned a $2.3bn offer from activist investor Elliott...
...It looms large in the public imagination, having served as a backdrop for Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage and in the cover art for Pink Floyd’s Animals LP....
...In 1978, Alfred Kahn, an adviser on inflation to President Jimmy Carter, used the word “depression”. So angry was the president that Mr Kahn started to call it “banana” instead....
...The owners, the Mackle brothers – Elliott, Robert and Frank Jr – divided these vast tracts into thousands of quarter-acre lots....
...Later that summer, Alfred Apps e-mailed Ignatieff, but heard nothing. He tried again and the two spoke but Apps couldn’t even get him to entertain the idea of returning....
...WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES: 1,100 Years of Myth and History by David Horspool Profile ₤15.99, 256 pages Another schoolroom story given the full treatment, restoring Alfred’s claim to the title “great”...
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