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...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...To understand why, it is worth pondering a new book by the business writer Kevin Duncan....
...We made a collection of work by people important to us a long time ago, in the ’70s – Patrick Proctor, Duncan Grant, Ger van Elk, Andy Warhol and André Cadere....
...As for H R Knickerbocker (“Knick”), his bedazzlement by Mussolini (“Benevolent, agreeable, polite, intelligent”) didn’t stop him from finding a “talented, dangerous demagogue” in Hitler before the Nazi takeover...
...Former Conservative party leader Duncan Smith wrote on Twitter that it was his “duty” to highlight human rights abuses carried out by the Chinese government....
...On Friday, it put sanctions on four UK-based groups and nine British citizens, including Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative party leader....
...US prosecutors alleged in court filings that he “used his official position to assist the H-2 Cartel, a notorious Mexican drug cartel, in exchange for bribes”....
...Primark and H&M are saying ‘we’re not going to pay the rent’’ Is that fair?,” said Robbie Duncan, an analyst at Numis. “I don’t know how we get through this....
...When demand plunged for new clothes, for instance, many retailers (with notable exceptions, such as H&M and Inditex) acted swiftly to push as much pain as possible downwards....
...Duncan Hamilton ROFGO, dhrofgo.com. Gooding & Company, goodingco.com. H&H Classics, handh.co.uk. Historics, historics.co.uk. Jason Lepley Motorsport, jasonlepleymotorsport.co.uk....
...Duncan Tatton-Brown, finance chief, said on Thursday it had more orders on one day this week than it normally expects in seven. Basket sizes have ballooned. Sales have doubled in the quarter to March....
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...Letter in response to this article: Unlikely interwar visitors to the Hotel du Cap / From William H Janeway, Cambridge, Cambs, UK...
...“This is a big headache,” said Duncan Edwards, chief executive of BritishAmerican Business, a transatlantic trade association....
...Letter in response to this article: Macmillan understood the world had changed / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
...Today, says Duncan MacInnes of investment management firm Ruffer, this “once obscure financial metric” has morphed from a simple barometer of financial stress into a “widely used input for many investment...
...In the 1980s, under the Ronald Reagan administration, there was briefly a push for a more cohesive industrial policy around technology, but it was ditched as soon as George H W Bush took office....
...Mr Duncan became UK managing director in 2011 and was subsequently appointed UK chief executive in 2014. He was previously was chief executive of broadcaster Channel 4 and luxury car dealers H.R....
...In this fascinating New York Times op-ed, a top flight lawyer with a degree from Oxford, denied a visa to remain in the US, asks Is Anyone Good Enough for an H-1B Visa? I’m on the FCC....
...After seven years of staring at hoardings, the residents of England’s fourth-largest city can finally go shopping at Debenhams, H&M and Superdry....
...Last year’s winner, H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald — which also won the 2014 Costa Book of the Year — has sold 335,000 copies to date in all formats, according to its publisher Jonathan Cape....
...I still have on my shelves a volume called The Sports Organiser’s Handbook (1961) by H. A. Winckles and Dr Waltham-Weeks, who was too shy even to offer his initials....
...You still see them in second-hand bookshops, tattered lives of such legends of the Bar as Edward Marshall Hall and Norman Birkett — many of them by the prolific H Montgomery Hyde — or anthologies of the...
...H&T had long been mooted as a potential buyer for the defunct pawnbroker....
...In 1994 he orchestrated a buyout of Zapata, a holding company that began life as an oil company set up by former US president George H W Bush....
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