Hints and tips:
...At its best, Steel’s play works like a combination of Chekhov’s Three Sisters spliced with Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, albeit delivered in her own frank, funny style....
...Lynn Pasquerella, head of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, said: “There’s a risk of even greater destabilisation ahead....
...One gagging agreement even inhibited the evidence of a witness in the case of Alan Bates before the High Court....
...Where Lynn + Lucy re-energised the stark tradition of Ken Loach and Alan Clarke, here the director works similar magic with vintage Hollywood melodrama....
...Volkswagen and McDonald’s, the latter of particular significance given its symbolic opening in Moscow after the fall of communism, both announced they were pulling out of Russia....
...The other members are Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, former Illumina chief Francis deSouza and Calvin McDonald, chief executive of Lululemon....
...From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast It is quite an achievement that, 30 years on, Steve Coogan’s comic creation can still summon proper belly laughs....
...It may seem a niche area but “many could happily be hung by themselves, as decorative and beautiful pieces of sculpture,” says specialist historian Lynn Roberts, who runs theframeblog.com....
...For their first meal together in Seoul during the World Cup 2002, Motson took him to a McDonald's, explaining, “I like a cheeseburger.”...
...Private equity firm Hg has named former Vista Equity Partners dealmaker Alan Cline as head of North America....
...Unilever chief executive Alan Jope warned: “We are entering into a period of slower economic growth....
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...I’m selling Andy McDonald, who is exactly one of the leftwing Labour MPs....
...You can’t get a McDonald’s Happy Meal or a Coke in Moscow. I think Putin’s probably got the message that people don’t like him....
...Unilever has suspended all imports and exports of its products into and out of Russia, chief executive Alan Jope said....
...Unilever has suspended all imports and exports of its products into and out of Russia, chief executive Alan Jope announced....
...Many asset managers already assure funds that they follow standards such as the UN Principles of Responsible Investment, notes Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the coalition’s founder....
...McDonald’s has appointed Disney veteran Kareem Daniel as an independent director to its board....
...Alan Beattie on “friendshoring”. Numbers news European imports of Russian diesel leapt by one-fifth in July....
...Our colleague Alan Beattie, whose Trade Secrets is also an excellent newsletter, wrote last week about the fact that most of the developing world, including China, India (yes, India!)...
...The departure of names such as McDonald's and Levis are loaded with historical meaning....
...The abstract painters included instead — Alan Davie, Gillian Ayres — are less original and much less fun....
...Also, a naive trust in the Tom Friedman ‘the world is flat’ fallacy (including the profound observation that no two countries that have a McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other)....
...McDonald’s took milkshakes off its menu this month, Nando’s ran short of chicken, and some supermarkets have warned of the risk of shortages in the run-up to Christmas....
...at the cutting edge / From Chris McDonald, Chief Executive Officer, Materials Processing Institute, Middlesbrough, UK...
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