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...Joining Neruda, Jackie and Spencer there now comes El Conde (The Count), a pitch-black (and white) portrait of Augusto Pinochet that imagines the Chilean dictator as a 250-year-old bloodsucker longing to...
...UK bellwether retailer Marks and Spencer announced its first post-pandemic dividend as strong food sales drove an increase in first half-profits from £208mn to £326mn....
...António Horta-Osório resigned as chair of investment bank Credit Suisse last month after repeated breaches of coronavirus quarantine rules....
...In 2021, António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, advocated for universal access to the internet as a “basic human right”....
...UK retail bellwether Marks and Spencer lifted its annual forecast after reporting higher sales in its clothing and food businesses....
...When the tournament went ahead five weeks later, one competitor, a 27-year-old cricketer named Spencer Gore, predicted that this whole lawn tennis fad would die out because it was too monotonous....
...Widespread survey evidence suggests that customers are likely to tighten their belts in response to higher payroll taxes and rising food and energy costs, but some retailers such as Marks and Spencer have...
...As for complaints by unionists that they could no longer buy cherished products such as flowers from Marks and Spencer and shortbread with royal patterns, Varadkar said many reports were anecdotal....
...Wednesday Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and UN secretary-general António Guterres meet in Ankara US, second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, which ignited Black Lives Matter protests...
...Spencer Ferguson Silver III was born in San Antonio, Texas, on February 6 1941. His father was an accountant and his mother a secretary....
...A: Lord [Michael] Spencer “This off-ramp won’t stay open for long.”...
...But leading companies including McDonald’s, Tesco and Marks and Spencer had called for the government to strengthen the environmental bill, by widening the description to include all forms of deforestation...
....£13 Marks and Spencer Kopke, Reserve Tawny Port 19.5%Distinctive squat flask. Transparent orange-ruby. It has a hint of raisins and rancio. Real substance and punch....
...António Horta-Osório, who joined from Santander UK, took the reins in 2011. The task nearly floored him, but he eventually mastered it....
...On Thursday, all eyes will be on new chair António Horta-Osório, tasked with guiding the ailing 165-year-old bank through the chaos....
...Cabinet of Curiosities, by Massimo Listri, Antonio Paolucci and Giulia Carciotto, Taschen, RRP£100, 356 pages This is the kind of book you see in photos of new and expensive interiors or come across in...
...The board informed Mr Mustier that it had hired search firm Spencer Stuart to start looking for a new chief executive....
...Michael Spencer, one of the City of London’s most successful entrepreneurs, has been taken to the cleaners....
...David E Spencer New York, NY, US...
...But while its rivals have linked up with the likes of Carrefour and Marks and Spencer, Delivery Hero is planning to go it alone, opening dozens of its own small warehouses....
...Will Dawkins, the FT’s former foreign editor, now a headhunter at Spencer Stuart, delivered a fond eulogy. “Peter was my boss when I worked in Tokyo,” he recalled with a twinkle....
...Among the 100-plus donations, there are a fair few for $5,000, plenty of $1,000 ones (step forward Bob Diamond and Michael Spencer) while some other big names (Lloyds’ António Horta-Osório, RBS’s Ross McEwan...
...Any move could ramp up pressure on other bank bosses (watch out António Horta-Osório and Jes Staley) to follow suit....
...But the limited format left the president of the parliament, Antonio Tajani, red-faced....
...The record peak in oil’s share of world primary energy consumption came in 1973, BP’s chief economist Spencer Dale has pointed out....
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