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...The tree in Trafalgar Square, the lights on Oxford Street, the carol-singing services and, these days, the rolling train strikes....
...The Big Four firm has flown some of its top executives, including global general counsel Diana Weiss and global head of tax Carol Stubbings, to Sydney, according to a person close to the firm with knowledge...
...BP could appoint its first female chief, with Carol Howle — head of the company’s powerful trading and shipping arm — seen as a potential frontrunner, alongside Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, who runs BP’s gas...
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...Merton Gordon Brown Hudson Thatcher Anne Robinson (hosts of Countdown — not including stand-ins) Moptop Carol Danvers (She has more aliases elsewhere) Bridges (over rivers) Doyle (Arthur Conan and...
...IHP tells users they will achieve better fitness results from two intense 20-second sprints on Carol than from a 40-minute jog....
...Four years later, Gordon Newton, the FT’s editor, asked the same question of a young applicant for a junior foreign desk job. He liked the answer and hired me. Thank you, Roger Angell....
...As former prime minister Gordon Brown has pointed out, the principle of localism is sound: the over-centralisation of power in London hampers local authorities and elected mayors....
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...What else we’re reading Lunch with the FT: Carol Dweck Psychologist and Stanford professor Carol Dweck may not be a household name, but her research into what she came to call “growth mindset” and “fixed...
...And, of course, there are YouTube lessons from celebrities such as PE with Joe Wicks, maths with Carol Vorderman and history with Dan Snow....
...These include the priciest work it has offered this way — Yayoi Kusama’s stainless steel “Pumpkin” (2015) for $1.8m — as well as sought-after paintings by Harold Ancart (2018, $45,000) and Carol Bove (“Anima...
...Dozens of properties run by bodies such as the National Trust and English Heritage run “meet Father Christmas” sessions alongside Christmas markets and carol concerts....
...The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon (2016) is an opinionated, engaging book about the somewhat esoteric field of productivity measurement and what it means for growth....
...Frances Wilson has lost several pounds and is more careful about what she gives her three grandchildren to eat, while Carol — after her third stay at Grayshott — has not only lost weight but “just feels...
...… One to see: Why Fitzwilliam Darcy continues to charm Heartthrobs in literature have mostly been dreamt up by women, writes Carol Dyhouse ....
...But conscience in its various forms has bubbled up to the surface in many of the festival’s world premieres, most unavoidably in Oliver Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the famous whistleblower...
...The recent stock market turmoil in China “affects sentiment”, says Carol Fairweather, Burberry finance director, “so we focus on marketing innovatively....
...Characteristically, he along with Carol decided not to seek to avenge their loss by pursuing the practitioner through the courts. The couple lived in Hertford, the county town north of London....
...Like his mentor Gordon Brown, the word “cuts” never passed Mr Miliband’s lips except when aimed at a Conservative opponent....
...The firm and a team of barristers led by Jenni Richards QC took on the case pro bono after Gordon-Jones was denied legal aid....
...In recent years there have been a number of art/design crossover projects in which type plays a central part; think of Why Not Associates and Gordon Young’s Comedy Carpet in Blackpool or Morag Myerscough...
...● Carol Wong is to join Old Mutual Global Investors in November as head of distribution, Asia, from BNP Investment Partners in Hong Kong....
...Listen to a chancellor Carol Folt, the first female chancellor of Carolina in the US, is making a speech at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler business school as part of it’s dean speaker’...
...Gordon Matta-Clark’s “anarchitectural” site-specific works, called “building cuts” – removing floors and walls to create sculpted shapes inside the shell of a structure (some of which he acquired for as...
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