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...Pre-tax profits at the John Lewis Partnership were £56mn in the year to January, compared with a £234mn loss the previous year. Sales climbed 1 per cent to £12.4bn....
...NHS England estimates that there were 307.5mn GP appointments in general practice in the 12 months ending April 2019 — and 344.8mn, including Covid vaccinations, in the 12 months ending April 2023, a 12...
...Telling employees that headcount is coming way down does not boost morale. And the fact is that under Solomon, the bank’s core businesses — trading and advisory — have taken market share....
...Stephen Foley The important thing is dealing with some of this anger across the partnership, making sure people don’t leave, trying to bring up morale again, bring together a sort of sense of purpose....
...Dmitry Medvedev, whom Putin allowed to serve as president in 2008-12 and who sought a framework of partnership with the west, has turned himself into a policy hawk....
...The Xiaomi Book S features a 12.4in touchscreen and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 processor powering Windows 11....
...In the Normandy port of Cherbourg, where the French submarines were to be built, the debate has hit morale and piqued workers’ pride....
...FT Digital Dialogues: The Global Boardroom The FT in partnership with TNW will gather senior global decision makers and leaders in policy, business, tech and finance on May 12-14 for three days of online...
...I did not have to make any staff redundant, but it was hard to keep up my morale, and that of my team. It was a storm that I had to live through, both at home and work....
...Bolivia's Evo Morales charged that "no ruling, no judicial coup could ever stop you or separate you from the people. Today, more than ever we embrace you."...
...“This business is in a much stronger position than it appeared to be 12 months ago,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at HSBC....
...“For so many years, employers have recognised the value of reporting on environmental consequences, but have failed to address the core drivers of workplace morale, productivity and the health of their own...
...The deal, which will ease the burden of Aston’s costly investments in new engine technology, was seen as a morale boost for the struggling carmaker, whose performance in recent years has contrasted sharply...
...Eric Isaacs, the lab director, says Argonne and its sister DoE institutions, play a distinctive role in delivering innovative research and technology....
...The steps come amid a spate of “insider” attacks that have shaken the US-Afghan military partnership during a stage of the war that hinges on close partnership between the two forces....
...The partnership shows how, in an era of historic budget constraints, austerity is often proving the mother of innovation in the public sector....
...Only 12 per cent of Roll Hill’s students passed the Ohio Achievement Test, teachers suffered from low morale and student absenteeism was high. But what a difference a year makes....
...The project is one of the first fruits of English Farming and Food Partnerships, a public-private scheme to build sustainable supply chains for the food industry....
...I propose to step up the allocation for this programme by 59% over BE 2008-09 to Rs.12,000 crore....
...For business, the biggest morale boost would be to see Mr Yar’Adua – who some call “Baba go-slow” after Nigeria’s notorious traffic jams – starting to deliver....
...It was almost four years ago that Ed Balls, the chancellor’s right-hand man, acknowledged that centrally driven targets “sap morale” and “destroy innovation and experimentation”....
...I am there, supervising, helping, coaching, developing, bringing people along, making sure there is good esprit de corps, good morale in the company....
...The UK is attempting a fresh approach in weapons buying, working in partnership with industry....
...BAA, the UK airports group, is cutting 700 jobs from its UK workforce of 12,000 as part of a restructuring programme aimed at saving £45m a year within two years....
...The two companies are also set to receive about 12 per cent in royalties on the drug and combination therapies with Novartis products if it wins regulatory approval scheduled for 2010....
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