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...“Idiosyncratic sounds like idiotic — and Silicon Valley was that,” says Lawrence J White, a finance professor at New York University who formerly worked in government during the savings and loan crisis....
...“That’s their Achilles heel”....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...That was clear this week at Bloomsbury, publisher of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, along with the Crescent City fantasy series by Sarah J Maas and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s reworking of...
...Videos shared using the BookTok hashtag has boosted the popularity of novels like Madeline Miller’s LGBTQ+ love story The Song of Achilles, published by Bloomsbury in 2011....
...That is, of course, the Achilles heel of the Democratic Party as well as its strength. RANA FOROOHAR: Right, right. EDWARD LUCE: What do you feel about that?...
...“Our Achilles heel is where does the fuel come from,” said Bamford....
...Ulf J Lindahl, chief executive of currency managers AG Bisset, believes that the surge in cheap flights and mass tourism in recent years could be the global economy’s Achilles heel....
...One person familiar with the situation says US officials realised how much more vigilant they needed to become when they discovered just how much similarity there was between the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter...
...Eccentricity fatigue “When does Britain’s tolerance of eccentricity cross from generous trait to national Achilles heel,” asks Janan Ganesh....
...Best of the week Poor leadership is the Achilles heel of the Brexiter cause — Janan Ganesh Flexibility comes at a high price, not just in the gig economy — Sarah O’Connor Taming the masters of the tech...
...Partiality is the heel in this Achilles film; though to this Achilles film’s credit, it also outruns, as storytelling, the tortoise forebodings we might have had about a true-life plot so cerebral and cyber-centric...
...However, they also highlighted worries that the election would prolong UK political uncertainty — “which has undoubtedly been the pound’s Achilles heel for over a year now,” ING said....
...The Clinton campaign hopes to keep the focus on Mr Trump and what has emerged in recent weeks as an Achilles heel for the Republican candidate following the release of a lewd recording of him talking about...
...At the same time, all of the big four supermarkets — Tesco, Asda, J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison, have lost market share....
...(WSJ) JPM aimed to limit damage: “Under the terms of a tentative $13 billion deal that could be finalized in a matter of days, J.P....
...It is this perceived lack of sensitivity to the underclass that is Emanuel’s real Achilles heel. For all his faults, Daley knew Chicago’s community leaders intimately....
...06:35:37 ADE says: you having a meeting with Javier and Achilles 06:35:39 ADE says: ?...
...“For online the Achilles heel is, how do you get hold of the product?” he said....
...At J.P. Morgan, Whale & Co. Go: Three London-based employees at the center of J.P....
...Apollo and CVC have formed a Dutch company, Achilles, to buy the business and are financing it entirely with equity....
...The Australian opener Simon Katich is also almost certainly out of the series, having torn an Achilles tendon. And their selectors face several other tough choices. What on earth do they do?...
...For example, J. Sainsbury, the UK retailer, jettisoned chief executive Dino Adriano in 2000 shortly after his ill-judged appearance on Back to the Floor , a tougher BBC show about executives....
...Gary Styles, Hometrack: The UK’s Achilles heel is the absence of steady balanced economic growth....
...But Republican strategists believe that Mr Obama’s so-called Achilles heel with white, working class voters could still assist them....
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