Hints and tips:
...As well as the music, there was the rich seam of licensing: “I remember asking, ‘Why would you let Elvis’s face appear on toilet paper?’...
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...Projects under way include the development of East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new culture and education district including Sadler’s Wells East’s 550-seat theatre, a large campus for UAL’s London...
...Gorman, who got on well with him, once remarked that he thought he had been in the CIA. He was certainly able to forge relationships with the gatekeepers to Africa’s bounty of minerals....
...If adopted, the overall number of black and Hispanic students at specialised schools would rise from 10 per cent a year to about 45 per cent, according to New York’s independent budget office....
...Freeport and KAZ Minerals are levered due to growth projects but have headroom....
...He was also familiar with the dangers of inhaling asbestos when used to build schools and homes....
...Burgess, a well-known figure in the city who also chairs the St Paul’s Carnival, favours diplomacy....
...Now, however, they are part of London’s most exclusive districts and the core of a property empire worth billions that stretches around the world....
...The much-observed fact that children from London’s ethnic communities perform better than their white counterparts is also helping to drive up school standards in outer London, as well as helping families...
...kate.burgess@ft.com...
...“I didn’t know the world of football well,” Aulas told me in 2007 over a bottle of OL mineral water in his office beside the club’s then stadium, the Gerland....
...Hannam extols the US bank as the last in a series of meritocratic organisations that moulded him: grammar school, the SAS, Imperial College, the London Business School (where he did an MBA) and Salomons....
...Since going it alone, he has expanded his business rapidly, acquiring independent rivals including Halliday Catering, BaxterSmith and Holroyd Howe....
...Several businesses in the “independent district” are boarded-up. One shop’s window displays the other shops for sale. “Oldham can be a cynical town — and rightly so,” says one long-term resident....
...Last stop of the day: a fish-processing plant run by Jan’s old school and military buddy, Pierre “Whitey” Marais. Whitey employs 1,400 people on land and more than 100 crew at sea....
...But the arts scene is to get a boost with the relocation of Cornerhouse – the much loved home of independent cinema and visual arts – from its cramped Oxford Road base....
...And for Beltrame’s well-laid plans, that is a problem....
...Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) 105....
...As well as Russians, there were South Ossetians and Georgians round the table – all friends back then....
...In the first stage, a total of 115 pilot districts have been selected for such convergence....
...In Russia, the all-important energy sector is regarded as a foundation of national power – as well as the personal wealth of the ruling elite....
...It is well above 30-40 years for most companies, which is well above average for the global oil producers....
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