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...And of course there are the glasses: all shapes and sizes, some unique, all satisfyingly heavy crystal....
...“That one ended up at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.”...
...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House (1951) was the high point....
...When Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house he spent a year on just the door handles. Then another year on the radiators....
...Ice crystals would form on the handset of your phone. You’d double it again....
...Being chief executive of the world’s oldest pharmaceuticals company gives Karl-Ludwig Kley a certain perspective on the ups and downs of business life....
...Well amplified, quartet-lab was vivid in the eerie, satanic sound pictures it creates out of whispered harmonics and crystal glasses, though the Kronos Quartet (last heard in Black Angels at the Hackney...
...Karl-Ludwig Kley, chief executive, said on Tuesday: “Merck is transforming into a highly specialised, global technology company.”...
...Merck is a leading operator in liquid crystal displays, with more than 2,500 patents, and is increasingly moving into OLED technology....
...The most robust division is Merck’s performance materials division, which includes liquid crystal technology....
...Vegetation surveys also uncovered two species long thought extinct and a further 20 known only from a collection gathered in 1825 by Prussian botanist Ludwig Riedel....
...Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman, said: “While a series of one-time charges adversely affected this quarter’s profits, this will give us a healthy basis on which our new management team can build.”...
...Chief executive Karl-Ludwig Kley’s comments that the financial adjustments would provide “a healthy basis on which our new management team can build” suggest as much....
...Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman of the executive board, highlighted the changes in an FT interview as his reshuffled executive team begins work on a “road map” to improve performance that he said would be unveiled...
...But he continued to rule out any sale of the company’s long-standing liquid crystals operations, seen by many analysts as an awkward fit....
...Karl-Ludwig Kley jumps up mid-sentence, leaves the room to ask his secretary for a print out, and returns to complete his previous thought before dramatically flicking over the sheet of paper with a grin...
...“People think chemicals means PVC, but these are not commodity businesses,” he says, citing Merck’s influential and high-margin liquid crystal displays....
...Operating margins for its liquid crystal display chemicals rose about one third to 45 per cent....
...There will be no darkness in the crystal clear architecture of modernism....
...Held unison notes refract into shards of plucked dissonance; pure tones are bent into microtonal oddity; lyrical fragments are scattered like sunlight through a crystal across the ensemble....
...In the first interview since his appointment as chairman of the executive board in April, Karl-Ludwig Kley told the Financial Times he was seeking deals in the consumer healthcare and chemicals divisions...
...In the middle of the 19th century, production techniques and the adoption of the cast iron frame allowed astonishing structures such as London’s Crystal Palace in 1851 and the vast roofs of the great railway...
...With superb clarity and acuteness, he pinpoints and discusses the contributions to this debate of the “brand name” philosophers of recent times - Ludwig Wittgenstein, W.V....
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