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...Another was the arrival of the lift, with Elisha Otis’s first passenger elevator installed in New York in 1857....
...“It’s only pomp and ceremony but you can’t take that away from the English,” said David Payne from Southend in Essex, who saw the occasion as a great unifier, bringing together people from all walks of life...
...The appointments followed a raft of departures late last year, including technology boss Elisha Wiesel, securities co-head Marty Chavez and HR chief Dane Holmes....
...Both Mr Argenti and Mr Lahtiranta are joining as partners, despite an initiative by Goldman boss David Solomon to make the partnership smaller and more exclusive....
...Technology boss Elisha Wiesel and research chief Steve Strongin are still negotiating possible exits along with a group of others....
...“David came in really as the person to put the focus on growth,” he adds, citing the “critical” need to expand into new businesses....
...The appointment comes as chief executive David Solomon has been putting his own stamp on senior management and easing out some long-standing partners to free up bigger jobs and rewards for the next generation...
...Elisha Willis, channelling Grace Kelly with her honey blonde chignon, did what she could with Bintley’s bland and underwritten heroine....
...And when it grows serious, Elisha’s script by and large goes plonk....
...stagings of Prokofiev’s Cinderella hanging from the Christmas tree – productions by the Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Matthew Bourne are this year’s must-haves – it might be thought that a fourth, by David...
...And David Bintley’s new realisation of the score, which Birmingham Royal Ballet brought to London at the end of last week, is no less beguiling....
...David Bintley’s commentary upon endangered species is hugely popular. It presses all the conservationist buttons, has effective, largely cheery choreography, boasts clever design....
...Men such as Henry Ford, Levi Strauss and Elisha Otis are passed over as only part of the financial machinery that supports politics. This book shows how limited is that view....
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