Hints and tips:
...Glaxo first bought Wellcome in 1995 and then SmithKline Beecham in 2000, becoming GSK. Glencore acquired Xstrata in 2013....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...John Ruggie, a Harvard professor and human rights expert, agrees that “a defensiveness about the role of the corporation in modern society” has contributed to the rethink....
...Honda unsuccessfully tried to sue Chinese group Shuanghuan Auto in 2004 for allegedly copying its CR-V vehicle....
...Peter Campbell in London 90....
...The Thatcher-Reagan era of deregulation and globalisation — the free movement of goods, capital, labour and services — unleashed the global corporation....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...There is no late-breaking news, yet the menu is strong and meaty: war (in Libya), sex (models to illustrate John Galliano’s dismissal; Jane Russell clips to mark her death) and football (Chelsea v Manchester...
...I remember that Campbell had called the BBC, “the bloody Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.” Blair had laughed but seemed embarrassed....
...A notorious recent example was the 2003 ruling, State Farm v Campbell, where the justices tried to rein in huge punitive damage awards....
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