Hints and tips:
...Home Depot’s shoppers are routinely “trading up” to more expensive tools and appliances based on what is in stock, according to Edward Decker, chief operating officer....
...“It is not unreasonable to look upon the Concorde as a miracle,” the book quotes Concorde test pilot Brian Trubshaw saying....
...Brian Goldner, chief executive of Hasbro, put the message more starkly....
...Brian Strutton, general secretary of Balpa, said the British pilots’ union had been negotiating with Ryanair on pay, holidays and seniority, but “progress has been slow . . ....
...shed of double-decker trains....
...Senvest held stakes in the second quarter in Pandora Media, Tower Semiconductor, and footwear company Deckers Outdoor....
...Taking Manhattan Aboard a New York tourist bus*: “Bienvenidos, Willkommen, welcome to City Sights NY double-decker bus tours – or is it Gray Line New York today?...
...It primarily builds single-decker buses but a new double-decker is undergoing trials....
...Stanley Black & Decker , the US group best known for its DIY hand tools, gained 5.9 per cent to $63.26. WW Grainger , a distributor of building-maintenance supplies, rose 11.4 per cent to $210.57....
...The Hundred Decker Bus, by Mike Smith, Macmillan, RRP£6.99, 32 pages A double-decker bus driver leaves his route and heads off on an adventure....
...Optare, was established in 1985 and employs more than 800 staff, builds single- and double-decker buses, as well as mini coaches at its facilities in Blackburn and Leeds....
...The business started in Chicago in 2006, adopted attention-getting double-deckers for the fleet in 2007 and expanded into the US’s north-east in 2008....
...The Goldfinch introduces us to Theo Decker, a modern-day Dickensian hero, and his suitably picaresque adventures in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam....
...Doug Jack, director of Transport Resources International, the Rugby-based industry consultants, said ADL’s focus on double-deck vehicles – of the 2,000 buses it makes a year, 1,400 are double-deckers – had...
...Backstage, T’Pau singer Carol Decker gloats that “This was the music that people used to slag off”....
...brian.groom@ft.com...
...Brian Souter, Stagecoach group chief executive, says: “We are challenging people to rethink their expectation of bus travel.”...
...Brian Souter is best known as chief executive of Stagecoach, the transport group that he and his sister, Ann Gloag, founded 30 years ago with just two buses in Perth....
...“Mass merchant retailers – Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s – and raw material suppliers beware,” Brian Sozzi, an analyst with Wall Street Strategies, said....
...Mr Robertson believes his company accounts for about a quarter of the UK sales of single and double-decker buses, a market with an estimated value of about £1bn this year....
...Andrew Brian, chief executive, says Darwen can increase sales as the biggest bus owners start to renew their fleets, a decade or so after the last round of significant investment....
...The mayor has tended to concentrate on transport issues, highlighting confusion over Mr Johnson’s plan to replace London’s bendy buses with an updated double-decker....
...He is campaigning on classic conservative themes: crime, safety, value-for-money in public services, nostalgia – in particular, the restoration of much-loved double-decker Routemaster buses....
...That these sentiments should crown Sir Brian McMaster’s 15th and last summer as director of the Edinburgh International Festival was no coincidence....
...Only on March 2 did it get around to telling Companies House that Brian Barwick, the Football Association’s chief executive, had joined its board on July 26 2005....
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