Hints and tips:
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Sarah Blount, of the National Environmental Education Foundation, says every year, trees are “managing a budget”....
...Showrunner Brian Koppelman has said that Billions is ostensibly about the role of billionaires in society....
...The vocals swoop gloriously, Blount’s guitar and banjo bass propel the song over Brian Slattery’s percussion, and the words cast a deepening chill....
...The novel opens with a shifty ex-con named Felix Mordaunt arriving at Arden, the country house where Godley Sr lay dying in The Infinities....
...“We at Avis realised that the electrification of vehicles is where not just our industry, but the entire mobility ecosystem is eventually headed,” Brian Choi, chief financial officer, said on Tuesday’s call...
...“You have Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, Brian Moynihan; throw in the head of Vanguard and Larry Fink, and you essentially have the American financial system concentrated at a very small table of individuals...
...SRS’s representative Brian Choi, as well as a mutually agreed-upon independent director, will keep their seats on Avis’ board....
...Mr Quinn Sr is due in court later this month for sentencing in the case....
...will receive 0.81 of a share of Leucadia common stock for each Jefferies share they hold — following the merger, Rich Handler, Jefferies chief executive, will become chief executive of Leucadia, while Brian...
...“A lot of the Hispanics come from Mexico where the political process is corrupt and not very enfranchising,” says Brian Conklin, one of the Obama campaign’s staffers in Arizona....
...Nascar is a private company, founded by Brian France’s grandfather, Bill France Sr, in 1948....
...Jeremy Baverstock is angry about dog faeces; Kenneth Cranshaw Sr rages about the mad duck at Threadbare Cottage (“THAT DUCK IS A WRONG ’UN....
...Nascar, short for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, was formed by Bill France Sr in 1948. It is now headed by his grandson Brian. Bill France’s son Jim is Speedway’s chief executive....
...In More Than a Game, John Major, the cricket-mad former British prime minister, recalls explaining the sport to President George Bush Sr – his “eyes swivelled when he realised that a match could last five...
...Bill Gates Sr and Warren Buffet have formed a group called Responsible Wealth to campaign to keep it....
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