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...Last week, Avon International announced a leadership change that would see chief executive Angela Cretu step down, to be replaced by chief marketing officer Kristof Neirynck at the start of next year....
...If being asked to conform can lead to resentment or disconnection, one potential compromise may lie in the approach of postwar architect Eric Lyons....
...The UK spends billions on R&D but relative peanuts on the gatekeepers that bring products to market. The balance needs to be adjusted. And relatively speaking, you’ll get a lot of bang for your buck....
...But an R-star of close to zero is a policy outcome that reflects deeply flawed thinking because of the distortions that arise from cheap money....
...Law firm Skadden has hired Benjamin Lyon as a financial institutions-focused counsel in London. He joins from Debevoise & Plimpton....
...in a village outside Lyon to a single mother whose occupation is variously a prostitute and wet nurse....
...A representative for PJT and Lyons declined to comment. Representatives for Ardea didn’t respond to requests for comment....
...He soon found himself on a plane to Germany and eventually face to face with then-chancellor Angela Merkel negotiating, on behalf of the US government, the future of General Motors’ operations in the European...
...I take the Eurostar from London to Paris, then the train from Gare de Lyon to Dijon. Finally I hire a car in Dijon and drive down through Marsannay, Fixin, Gevrey-Chambertin....
...Agent in the Shadows (Canelo, £9.99) the final volume in Alex Gerlis’s Wolf Pack series, unfolds in Lyon as the French resistance attempts to unite. Gerlis deploys his cast with his customary brio....
...Then “Amazing Grace”, played instrumentally and channelling 1950s gospel R&B in the style of Ray Charles: Benjamin’s phrases curled round the chords and slurred, sighed and moaned; Curtis supported with...
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...“This type of chemistry links together chemical building blocks in a predictable way, almost like Lego,” said Angela Wilson, president of the American Chemical Society....
...The chatbot apologised and named female leaders such as former German chancellor Angela Merkel. They repeated the question, and then the chatbot offered women and men....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...The choir and orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon are on top form....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired David Taylor, former chair and CEO of Procter & Gamble, as a senior adviser to CD&R Funds....
...Of these, the best is by Matthias Matthijs and R Daniel Kelemen in Foreign Policy — “The other side of Angela Merkel”. It is also well worth reading the always acute Jeremy Cliffe in the New Statesman....
...“The 1969 film and the 1992 documentary Elizabeth R were broadcasts that changed the scope and style of the monarchy.”...
...In the Autumn, I said I would return with a more robust R & D tax credit scheme for smaller research-intensive companies....
...US health campaigners’ assumptions that Angela Merkel was single-handedly blocking a waiver exploded when the new coalition government in Berlin adopted the same sceptical view....
...During his own presidency, Donald Trump doubled down on that jibe, telling Merkel: “Angela, you gotta pay”. Trump’s logic was simple....
...And as a growing band of female chefs began jostling the men at the top of the best-of lists — Hélène Darroze, Clare Smyth, Anne-Sophie Pic, Angela Hartnett, Elena Arzak — the #MeToo movement effectively...
...Agathe Lyon, a 34-year-old mother of two in Calais, recently started shopping at discounter Lidl instead of the nearby Intermarché hypermarket to save money....
...They point to outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel blocking Fiat from buying Opel in 2009 and French president Emmanuel Macron delaying Fincantieri’s acquisition of STX in 2017....
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