Hints and tips:
...While Mexican writer Brenda Navarro just puts on her headphones: once she’s got her soundtrack she can write anywhere....
...The smile belongs to Mikey Davies (Simon Rex), back where he grew up after years in Los Angeles and the adult film industry....
...As Ottone, countertenor Iestyn Davies sings smoothly in the opera’s most intense slow aria, sung after the commander is denounced as a traitor, but Davies does not plumb its emotional depths....
...London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker, Nuneaton Crossword 16,111: Magnus Chisholm, Ross-shire; J Verge , Dorset; Steven Smith, Switzerland Polymath 1,012: Brenda...
...Brenda Trenowden, global chair of the 30% Club, says investors are paying more attention to the issue because of growing awareness about the benefits of diverse boards....
...Anne Richards, chief executive of asset manager M&G, Lord Mervyn Davies, the former banker and Labour trade minister, and Brenda Trenowden, who runs the pro-women 30% Club, echoed the view....
...Chose the right UK negotiating team because May vs Barnier or Davies vs Barnier doesn’t look like a close contest today….. Listen to the youth....
...In the UK, the Davies Commission — which had committed to increasing the number of women on FTSE 100 company boards to 25 per cent by 2015 — recently upped its target to 33 per cent by 2020....
...Brenda Trenowden, chair of the 30% Club, which campaigns to get women on boards in the UK and elsewhere, said she was concerned that no successor to Lord Davies had been named....
...Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg was Canadian counsel to Burger King in the deal and helped reinvent the conventional Canadian exchangeable share structure....
...The Davies Commission, an independent review, has had some success in increasing the number of women into the UK’s boardrooms....
...City Insider hears the government will shortly decide who should pick up where Lord (Mervyn) Davies has left off....
...“We’re thrilled with how far we’ve come,” says Brenda Trenowden. “But we’ve got to keep this on the agenda if it’s going to be sustainable.”...
...Lord Davies would be the last to claim everything is rosy....
...Now, a lack of time has prompted her to hand over the reins of the 30% Club to Brenda Trenowden....
...Hampton, GlaxoSmithKline chairman, was appointed to lead a review to try to increase the number of women at executive level in UK companies; he will continue the work of a review headed by Lord (Mervyn) Davies...
...Brenda Trenowden, 30% Club I would have to wholeheartedly agree with Robert’s comments and also Helena’s....
...Brenda Trenowden, 30% Club It has been a very divisive and highly emotional campaign and the results reflect a very divided country....
...Lord Mervyn Davies, Corsair Nobody quite knows where the risk may come from and how it might pan out....
...Like composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, Friend knew Ogdon from student days in Manchester, but his assessment is not biased....
...Architecture on the Carpet : The Curious Tale of Construction Toys and the Genesis of Modern Buildings, by Robert and Brenda Vale, Thames & Hudson, £19.95, 208 pages This quirky book attempts to trace the...
...Mike Davies, Andrew Dougal and Katherine Innes Ker will be non-execs from the TW side, while Brenda Dean and Anthony Reading will be non-execs from the GW side....
...Brenda (Karen Young from The Sopranos) is the most complex: a late emotional developer, vulnerable, discovering love and sex in middle age....
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