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...“He was so dedicated and always working, never taking his eye off the ball,” recalls his tutor, Howard Tangye, former head of womenswear there....
...“Rather than putting the judicial system under strain and spending government resources, if someone plays ball, you cut them a deal; that’s the game.”...
...Now it should be terrifying,” said Gregory Allen, a technology expert at Washington-based think-tank CSIS....
...Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Linklaters and Freshfields have reported stalling or declining profits per partner. Gazing into a crystal ball offers little in the way of relief....
...More precisely, Einstein’s equations imply that a black hole is not a ball or sphere but a funnel that grows ever longer and narrower with time....
The Supreme Court judgment was legally disappointing for the Holyrood government but gives it more ammunition
...As DD’s Sujeet Indap scooped on Tuesday, Apollo has now taken its ball and gone home. It sold its $500mn loan to a credit fund associated with Ken Griffin’s hedge fund Citadel....
...That’s not to say he’s not interested in playing ball....
...Now, thanks to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war on Ukraine, the state and future of the region is on everybody’s mind — and history is perhaps the only crystal ball that can help us to imagine this future...
...Allen & Overy has promoted 36 new partners....
...If we all look at America as a place that we want to be number one in the world, then we have to play ball together. And we will be much more successful.”...
...The waiter brings small nibbling portions of lightly pickled vegetables, deep-fried balls of labneh, a keema bun and a prawn-toast Scotch egg with pink pickled onions....
...She was counsel at Allen & Overy. Smart reads Time is money How much cash would you accept to give up your spot in The Queue?...
...Val Kilmer — True Romance (1993) For Woody Allen in the 1970s, the fantasy mentor in Play It Again, Sam was Humphrey Bogart....
...Smart reads Billionaires’ ball Every year, the world’s most powerful media moguls descend upon Sun Valley for a conference thrown by the secretive investment firm Allen & Company....
...Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday, Allen Lane £20, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart, Allen & Unwin £14.99/Random House $28, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Pay deals including bonuses have climbed to record highs for some at the law firms, including the so-called magic circle: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters....
...The difficulty is that central banks cannot take away the punch bowl and raise rates without undermining weak balance sheets and taking a wrecking ball to the economy....
...The slowest player moved the ball fastest. “I knew nothing about football until I met Cruyff,” Guardiola said later....
...Hywel Ball, UK chair of EY, the professional services firm, says graduate applications were up by 60 per cent compared with 2019, and 12 per cent compared with 2020....
...have a fickle attitude to economists / From Joseph P Joyce, M Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, MA, US Some humility is in order for years...
...Using modern sound, projection and animation techniques, a kind of mirror-ball effect is created that sometimes plunges the huge gallery into near-darkness, only to illuminate individual paintings a few...
...But it is now, as the estimable David Allen Green puts it, “an ornament, not an instrument”. So why the continued reference to it?...
...On Monday Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an influential election forecast, moved Ms Collins’s race from a “toss-up” to “lean Democrat”....
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