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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...Instead of long-winded essays and interviews, most pages are filled with picture-heavy city guides and catalogue-ish fashion spreads that often cover not two but two dozen varieties of slip-on sneakers or...
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...of NYC: Gotham — which in old Anglo-Saxon means “Goats’ Town” — was (and still is) a real village in the English county of Nottinghamshire, not far from Sherwood Forest....
...So does Blackstone’s default on a €531mn loan backed by a Finnish office portfolio and Blackstone, KKR et al, limiting real estate investment trust redemptions....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...The US Treasury Department has allowed transactions in the county’s oil and gas sector to resume for six months....
...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...HMZ House by Lucio Muniain et al; lmetal.com.mx...
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...I still recall the shock of my first conference in the South African city of Durban in 2011, where I cluelessly watched hundreds of experts in finance, economics, law, science and trade pore over reams of...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Major construction for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is under way....
...shift of the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
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