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...If Covid-19’s reproduction or R number — the expected number of people one infected person will infect in a susceptible population — is 1-2, for measles it is 12-18....
...Lesser manbunned strummers may have fallen by the wayside, but Andrew Hozier-Byrne has musical ability and Irish heritage on his side....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...Catharine Bond Hill, managing director of Ithaka S+R, a higher education consultancy, said that far greater focus and funding is necessary in the US for these less exclusive colleges....
...Andrew Simms, Co-director at New Weather Institute: Negative dynamics around inequality, health, social division and nature will probably make people feel worse in the run-up to the election....
...An Australian campaign, Comms Declare, similarly urges communications professionals to “choose your next clients with the climate in mind”....
...Andrew Smithers: Probably not....
...Andrew Simms: The terms of current economic commentary seem chronically disengaged from the real world of pandemic shocks, corrosive social inequality and the epochal challenge of the climate emergency....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The S&P 500, meanwhile, remains stuck just below where it started the year....
...On March 5, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson will be speaking at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business’s 2020 Practice Forum....
...Martin Slumbers usually works from a wood-panelled room overlooking the 18th green of the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland....
...Mr Koizumi is bringing a change to the S part of ESG as well — not just the E....
...Just Capital, a non-profit with a focus on social justice, estimates just 6 per cent of the tax windfall will go to workers....
...Long may it be learnt / From Sir Andrew Cook, Sheffield, S Yorks, UK Latin is so rarely used now that it makes security easy / From Douglas Krauze, Warwick, NY, US Not dead but alive and well — and even...
...It will hurt long-term growth which is driven by human capital, R&D and education. Walk into any university lab, and you will hear many languages. That is a strength not a weakness....
...The Orlando Sentinel said he moved to Florida from Puerto Rico and had previously worked for Toys R Us. Luis S....
...Sir Andrew warns that a fixation on chasing ever-higher prices from ever-smaller patient populations risks undermining the industry’s social legitimacy....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...Instead they are frittering away cash on share buybacks and dividends that totalled $903bn for S&P 500 companies in 2014....
...It will also result in lower social cohesion. So I expect the balance to be worse by the end of 2016....
...tech-economy title of choice, this book may be 2015’s equivalent....
...S&P says CMBS defaults more than doubled in the first half of last year – a trend that has continued....
...At the end of last year, Banks, a young musician from suburban Los Angeles who sings floaty, R&B-infused melodies, was selected as one of 2014’s acts to watch by the BBC....
...unrest this year around the commercial hub of Africa’s biggest economy. http://reut.rs/13VLICk Farc rebels lift ceasefire The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, lifted its two-month unilateral...
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