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...Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon, is the largest shareholder in IDS with a 27.5 per cent stake and has been a prolific dealmaker in the UK, buying stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London...
...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...Barbara Erling....
...In the first room of Barbara Kruger’s new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, entitled Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, the walls are papered with pastiches of the artist’s work....
...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...Chief executive Simon Roberts said: “We expect to continue to grow grocery volumes ahead of the market.”...
...Robert A J MatthewsDidcot, Oxfordshire, UK...
...More than half a century later, in 1988, economists Robert Shiller and John Campbell investigated whether this approach could help predict aggregate stock market returns. They found that it could....
...In a litmus test of industry feeling ahead of next month’s Oscars, Nolan’s biography of nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer left with seven Baftas in total, including the blue-riband award for best film...
...As the case progressed on TV, Simpson’s legal team of Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro tapped into the theme of race and the LA police department....
...J Sainsbury’s fresh plans to boost shareholder returns and cut a further £1bn in costs over the next three years drew a lukewarm response from investors on Wednesday after the supermarket chain also disclosed...
...Roberts said it was “business as usual for now at Sainsbury’s Bank”....
...The other includes Brooks Brothers button-collar oxford cloth shirts; J Press tweed jackets; Bass Weejuns and penny loafers generally; Docksides and Sperry boat shoes; odd lightweight cloths such as madras...
...J Sainsbury was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after strong grocery sales failed to allay concerns over its struggling general merchandise business....
...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...In neighbouring Slovakia, former premier and Ukraine sceptic Robert Fico won parliamentary elections at the weekend and will try to form a ruling coalition....
...When he joined Sainsbury’s in 2020, chief executive Simon Roberts declared that the retailer would go back to basics and focus on its food business....
...Now try this Although I am distraught about the end of Radio 3’s weekend jazz programme, J to Z, I am very happy indeed that its new schedule moves the wonderful Night Tracks an hour earlier....
...But Anthony Cheetham and Ram Seshadri, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote this month in the journal Chemistry of Materials, that the work showed “scant evidence for compounds that fulfil...
...But it was from his mother, Barbara Hutchinson, that Rothschild was said to have inherited his aesthetic sensibilities....
...Roberts has since invested nearly £700mn in prices. A £1.3bn savings programme, of which £1.1bn is already in the bag, has helped....
The past chimes with the present on a walk through the landscape that, the author wrote in 1934, offers ‘everything a man can possibly want’
...Earlier this month Robert Cleary, a former federal prosecutor, was appointed as an independent examiner in FTX’s bankruptcy to provide a detailed report on the events leading up to its implosion, including...
...Nolan’s three-hour biopic of J Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb inventor, was a critical and commercial success, taking in close to $1bn at the box office....
...In his fascinating book The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War, US economist Robert J Gordon — whom the IMF once dubbed the “prophet of pessimism” — raises related...
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