Hints and tips:
...Life & Art presents a special episode from Slate’s Culture Gabfest podcast, hosted by culture critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner....
...But one night I waited on a table with Kathleen Turner and some friends, who were quite loud and great fun. They were buzzed, and she left this huge tip....
...By the time Dana was eight, his dad had left the family. Dana, according to his mom’s book, mostly excelled in getting in fights....
...She and chairman Mike Turner have proved adept at frustrating Melrose’s hostile bid. GKN on Friday agreed to combine its Driveline business with Dana....
...Mike Turner, GKN chairman, said the Dana deal offered “by far the best strategic route forward for GKN Driveline” as the industry shifts towards electric vehicles....
...Mike Turner, GKN chairman, urged shareholders not to accept Melrose’s bid of 1.49 of its shares and 81p, which valued GKN shares at 404p against Friday’s mid-day price of 426p....
...Mr Turner said he’s a Yankee Doodle Dan… no he didn’t. But you get the gist. Shareholders have to decide which side of the Atlantic their bread is buttered by the end of the month....
...As a farewell present to the new owners, the GKN board agreed to pay advisory fees of £82m, plus a further $40m break fee to Dana....
...Mike Turner, GKN chairman, called on shareholders to give the existing management the time to turn the company round....
...It also reminds shareholders of $235m of deal synergies from the Dana-Driveline combination. GKN chairman Mike Turner said: "I welcome Dana's announcement today....
...“Over the past few weeks, we have demonstrated how much we can achieve for our shareholders”, GKN chairman Mike Turner added....
...It’s all very Turner Prize-y but it’s an unsettling piece just the same....
...Mr Miller and Mr Peckham met Mr Turner and GKN’s interim chief executive, Anne Stevens, who had been promoted from non-executive to bridge the crisis....
...The deal with Dana last week had been struck at a reasonable price and could have significant upside, the investor said....
...Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of the Unite trade union, later accused Melrose of “asset stripping”....
...Under its proposed $6bn sale of its automotive division to US group Dana, GKN would transfer £1.37bn of pension liabilities and £818m of the funding deficit to the acquirer....
...Disappointment in Girona after EU turns back on Catalan ambitions Turner Prize The Turner Prize will be presented in Hull, the culmination of the city’s year-long tenure as UK City of Culture....
...He was 17 when his mother, the actress Dana Wilson, met Albert “Cubby” Broccoli in 1958 and married him soon afterwards....
...The author of 10 previous novels and seven short-story collections, Boyle has specialised in perfecting that apparent oxymoron: the thought-provoking page-turner....
...Mark Malloch Brown, UN chief of staff, cited the GAO study, requested by congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and William Delahunt, as part of the UN’s defence....
...Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said the payments should have been made to Al-Riyadh International Flowers, a group owned by Prince Bandar bin Mohammed, a...
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