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...A sheet-metal sculpture, “Tête d’homme barbu” (1962), is the latest work in the exhibition, with other highlights including an unusually tender drawing of Dora Maar from 1937, bought from the sitter’s estate...
...I imagine her waking up late, her stomach in knots, realising she’s supposed to be at work. She breezes past her dad at the kitchen table to the counter, where Alice stirs oatmeal....
...The trouble was retaining them, given the monotony of the work....
...At one point we arranged them with magnets on a wall-mounted metal sheet; that way you could grab one whenever you needed. We called it the wall of death!...
...The electricity will power almost 90 per cent of the energy needed by the mill, including the electric arc furnace that pulsates at its heart, melting more than 1m tonnes of scrap metal a year....
...Plants take up heavy metals in the water they absorb and, as a result, their concentration can be measured and plotted through time from herbarium specimens of differing dates....
...“We’re very genuine about putting on the table a draft JV term sheet,” Mr Palmer told the Financial Times ahead of meetings with leading shareholders in London....
...Expedia, the online travel booking company, has raised $3.2bn in fresh capital, including $1.2bn from the private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake, to bolster its balance sheet amid...
...If successful, the project could offer US carmakers and battery producers a secure supply of the metal, reducing reliance on the handful of large producers in Chile and Australia....
...“I’m confident that the way the two of us work together works now,” he says: “I’m not exactly sure what the right answer will be 50 years from now, but that’s not our issue today.”...
...CEO - “This works?” CIO - “Excluding the years 2015 to 2018, it works 100 per cent of the time.” CEO - “What the f -” (CEO’s call disconnects abruptly as Zoom hits its 40 minute limit.)...
...Further work on the US business boosts our confidence that its medium term outlook is attractive....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...And it works or it doesn’t.”...
...Alice Lascelles writes The Goblet drinks column in FT How to Spend It and is an FT contributing editor....
...Made in India includes the work of artisans based in Rajasthan, Kashmir, Bihar and Jaipur....
...Kapor Klein wishes that balance sheets would take into account the impact of the investments on global problems....
...The red metal touched $6,400 a tonne on the London Metal Exchange, the highest since May 2015, before ending 1.7 per cent stronger at $6,330....
...“They have a very small central core that does the acquisition work, then all the [work] is done directly with companies....
...In March Newcrest teamed up with Alice Queen Limited, an ASX-listed miner, to explore in New South Wales....
...He began in the sheet metal workshop for what was then American Export Airlines and went on to work on the flying boats that the airline used to launch transatlantic routes in the 1940s....
...Rauschenberg glued together 20 sheets of paper and laid them on the street outside his studio....
...Kato Mfg, a sheet metal manufacturer based in the central Japanese city of Nakatsugawa, offers another example....
...What differentiates 2016 from 15 years ago is the focus on higher-value products, which include high-strength steels used in automotive industries, deeper cost-cutting efforts and a stronger balance sheet...
...“It is the balance sheet that starts to concern investors when the margins get squeezed,” Mr Hillcoat points out....
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