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...Then there is the Company School – work created for British and French administrators who took over when the Mughal empire faded....
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...As early as January 23, Carter Mecher, an impressive US epidemiologist, said “we are not going to be able to outrun it” and advocated targeted layered containment....
...His father was a foreman in the shipping department of a garment trade company....
...Witnessing the old ledgers seemingly at random, letting the history and glamour just spill out, I felt like Howard Carter (or do I mean Howard Cartier?)...
...Less than a week ago, the stage was set for Donald Trump to follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and have his own Camp David moment....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...There is also input from the visual effects company Rodeo FX, which has created artworks for Game of Thrones and Blade Runner 2049....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...About 84m people tuned in to watch the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night — surpassing the 1980 matchup between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, which drew 80.6m to become...
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...That leads back to a theme of Mr Vogel’s 1979 analysis: the behaviour of Japanese companies....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...“That approach is tantamount . . . to pouring gasoline on the fire,” said Ashton Carter, US defence secretary....
...Mike Carter flew from London Stansted to Cagliari, staying as a guest the night before at the Radisson Blu hotel (radissonblu.co.uk; doubles from £109) Photographs: Mike Carter, Luca Gasperini...
...Bourgoin in a series of square décolletage dresses at Miami Basel; Clémence Poésy in a white Valentino lace gown at a Valentino Mytheresa.com dinner in Berlin; and seasoned period-dresser Helena Bonham Carter...
...(Just to get in my own teeny anti-Govian strike: even George V – that famous leftwinger – called WW1 “that horrible and unnecessary war”)....
...Aged 65, she remains on the board of charitable organisations, including Oxfam in the UK and in the US the Carter Center, a human rights organisation, and the MacArthur Foundation, an educational charity...
...That was followed by the era of the shorter-named from 1964-72 and the confusing years, Carter v. Reagan, Bush. v Gore, when candidates boasted the same number of letters....
...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...
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...Akio Toyoda, the company’s president, making his first visit to North America’s largest auto show, sat behind the wheel of the new hybrid SUV – the Prius V – as it was unveiled at a packed press conference...
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