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...a bear hugging a map of America’s most populous state, with the slogan, “I Love You California”....
...We should not assume America’s resolve will hold. Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Toyota’s market capitalisation is currently $220bn, almost half that of Tesla’s $415bn, even as it churns out annual sales of 10m vehicles compared with the 500,000 electric cars the US group plans to produce...
...precision instruments for V-1 cruise missiles....
...Boards may feel comfortable giving themselves a pass because the top court in Delaware, where most US companies are incorporated, ruled in the 2000 case of White v Panic that an all-male corporate board’...
...of religion at Dartmouth College and author of Evangelicalism in America....
...A number of AV Telegram group chats are also available....
...(FT) Coaching v commanding Andrew Hill recounts how industrial group Linde won over sceptical staff in 2017 with a safety drive based on “active listening”....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...Core v periphery A major plank of those who advocate managing the risk of Huawei in the UK’s 5G is the “core versus periphery” argument....
...Oz Motors of Tokyo, for example, specialises in installing electric power in classic Volkswagen Beetles at a cost of around £20,000, while Zelectric of San Diego converts not only Beetles but other VW models...
...(FT) Banking doldrums A drop in fixed-income sales and trading earnings took a heavy toll on Citigroup, one of America’s biggest financial institutions, which kicked off this week’s banks earnings....
...Nine years ago, Ian Higgins’ company in the north-west of England was jolted by bad news from Volkswagen....
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...Derek Mapp, chairman of Informa, would become chairman of the combined group, with Informa chief executive Stephen Carter running the business....
...AT&T, America’s largest telecoms group, agreed to buy Time Warner, the owner of Warner Brothers, HBO and CNN, for $85.4bn at the end of 2016....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...“More and more brands are talking about being ‘purpose led’,” said Carter Murray, worldwide chief executive of FCB, the Interpublic-owned advertising group....
...Sony’s Walkman had hit the streets, Toyota was crushing Detroit, and president Jimmy Carter was warning of a malaise that threatened to “destroy the social and political fabric of America”....
...Carter in 1980 but underwent a conversion to the Republican party during his college years — a period that coincided with Ronald Regan’s presidency....
...If anybody had any doubt about how serious HMRC take these matters they need only examine the cases of R v Dimsey and R v Allen in 1999....
...“I hope that in America, as everywhere, the judicial authorities decide independently of the national origin [of those involved],” he added....
...Ashton Carter, US defence secretary, said the attacks were intended to disrupt the group’s command and control, “to cause them to lose confidence in their networks, to overload their networks so they can...
...“The test of fire will be in North America,” says Mr Asumendi....
...The killing of a technician by an industrial robot at a Volkswagen plant in Germany sparked a social media storm this week and raised fears about human safety in the coming era of robotics....
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