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...Where so many large houses were being destroyed — more than 270 in the three decades after 1945 were documented in the 1974 V&A exhibition The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975 — Chatsworth confounded...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...On display at the V&A is a panel of floral marquetry attributed to Marc Simon that once decorated the ship’s deluxe Beauvais suite....
...David Bowers of absolute strategy in London suggests that we should keep an eye on credit, and particularly the high-yield market....
...V. Goings, chief executive of Tupperware Brands, noting that he has denied requests from presidents of “both parties” to give speeches at its corporate campus....
...It is alluded to but not endorsed in a fascinating new book, Chasing Shadows: The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck by Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge....
...Their initial work at Farnborough from 1947 – regarded by peers as their most influential – was on the Handley Page Victor V-bomber....
...Sweet Revenge, Tom Bower’s insightful biography, narrates his string of failures in the business before the revolution of Pop Idol....
...Fight Global Poverty , by Abhijit V....
...The V&A’s triumph here is to demonstrate the common ground between such disparate figures....
...Ever the engineering patriot, he strokes some Bowers & Wilkins speakers, made in Britain, before sitting on a sofa with a mere nine cushions....
...It also owns bed retailer Dreams, the V.Ships ship management business, and debt recovery specialists Lowell....
...Paradoxically, the biggest risk to companies may be that policymakers throw ‘everything they have got’ at the economy and succeed in creating a V-shaped recovery in demand....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
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