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...MEG Energy appointed Darlene Gates as president and chief executive of the Canadian oil sands company, succeeding Derek Evans....
...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway (WH Allen/Penguin Random House) Six key materials — sand (used for concrete), salt (for fertiliser), iron (and steel), copper (for...
...Brian Reissaus, former head of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has joined Freshfields as a senior adviser on national security. Smart reads Crime . . ....
...Noa Chernichovsky ‘Collage with Bricks’ Anne-Laure Cano One of her stacking sculptures Brian Rochefort ‘Zanzibari’ Other artists use more vibrant colour, such as LA-based Brian Rochefort, whose gloopy...
...Ed Conway explores the origins and uses of other minerals in Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future, which underlines the world’s reliance on six key materials: sand (used for concrete...
...Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals under the ground at high pressure to release gas from rock formations....
...Chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky wants to bring “operational efficiency back in all of our areas of cost”. Closing unpopular stores chimes with that....
...Baker’s chief financial officer Brian Worrell said delays on deliveries of parts it needed had doubled from 11 days to 25....
...Standard Chartered cleared out Peter Sands after the bank engaged in a bruising fight with US regulators and its performance faltered....
...The next most-popular candidate is conservative commentator Kathy Barnette on 10.6 per cent, followed by Carla Sands — a Republican donor and Trump’s ambassador to Denmark who describes herself as the “only...
...On HBO’s Succession, the media titan Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is the sun around which every other character orbits....
...But millions of fans of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring novels will also know that Mahon is where Jack Aubrey meets Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander, and it all begins....
...The Manchester event will focus on nature poetry from Sappho to Sabrina Mahfouz, read by voices including Simon Russell Beale, Jonathan Pryce, Jane Horrocks, Brian Cox and the rappers Nems and Lioness....
...But those touches of modernity contrast with an elemental set — a circle of sand, a pitcher of water, a small fire — that harks back to the oldest forms of storytelling....
...One is the failure of successive leaders to hone their focus or invest enough behind the company’s best opportunities, said Brian Wieser, who covered Yahoo as an internet analyst for years....
...Brian White — waving a flag and wearing a Trump hat but no mask — was all alone as he shouted demands for “justice”....
...Seasoned cyber security researcher Brian Krebs has claimed that at least 30,000 US organisations “including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments” were hacked in the...
...(Writer Brian Antoni later wrote a novel set in a Miami Beach apartment block, in which an elderly Holocaust survivor lives alongside a young gay man dying of Aids)....
...As part of the restructuring, its chief executive Brian Duperreault will step down on March 1, to be succeeded by current president Peter Zaffino....
...This was an in-joke — we are both devotees of Patrick O’Brian’s novels of the sea....
...Today the delta is “one of the most engineered places on earth”, according to Brian Eyler, south-east Asia director with the Stimson Center think-tank and author of Last Days of the Mighty Mekong....
...Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas Foubister, London; Michael Sweeney, Dublin; David Sands...
...A pleasing outcome, though, for Brian Souter, who is stepping down as chairman of Stagecoach, the UK transport group he co-founded....
...“You overcome your difficulties together, you don’t threaten to leave,” said Brian Pallister, the premier of the prairie province of Manitoba and another longtime critic of Mr Trudeau....
...Yes, it can only be Brian Cox — sorry, Professor Brian Cox — talking about how amazing and brilliant the death of the universe is going to be....
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