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...“Tile painter Debra has gone from doing Art Nouveau tulips to semi-naked men in leopard-skin underpants,” laughs Watson, who produces tiles designed by French artist Louis Barthélemy....
...Debra Crew has taken over as Diageo CEO a month earlier than expected after the company said outgoing leader Sir Ivan Menezes was in the hospital recovering from emergency surgery....
...financial titans Carl Icahn and Stephen Schwarzman, and members of the Rockefeller and Estée Lauder dynasties celebrated the “important contributions to the cultural community” made by Mr Black and his wife Debra...
...French regions increased their marketing efforts during the pandemic, says Simon....
...Dajia has hired French architect Jean-Louis Deniot to design the apartment interiors, which he has given an updated art deco look....
...French drugmaker Sanofi is looking to sell its €3bn generic drugs business, drawing interest from a consortium made up of Cinven and Bain Capital....
...Rio Tinto has appointed Philip Richards as new group head of legal to replace Debra Valentine, who was sacked in November in connection with a questionable payment made to a consultant on an African project...
...It then fired two senior managers: Alan Davies, the head of energy and minerals who was previously in charge of Simandou, and Debra Valentine, head of legal....
...Mr Davies was fired in November, along with Debra Valentine, Rio’s head of legal....
...Rio subsequently fired Alan Davies, head of its coal and uranium business who was previously in charge of the Simandou project, and Debra Valentine, its head of legal affairs....
...A second executive, Debra Valentine, head of legal and regulator affairs, has stepped down, the company said....
...At the same time, Debra Valentine, the head of legal and regulatory affairs, stepped down. The internal review was carried out by US law-firm Kirkland & Ellis....
...He was an adviser to former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and was a senior banker at Lazard, before leaving in 2005....
...Rio has not said what its internal inquiry found that warranted the sacking of Mr Davies and legal head Debra Valentine....
...Rio Tinto has fired Alan Davies, chief executive of its energy and minerals division, and Debra Valentine, the head of legal affairs, after reviewing a $10.5m payment made for advisory services on a giant...
...On Wednesday night, Rio announced it had terminated the contract of Mr Davies and that of the head of legal and regulatory affairs Debra Valentine....
...Debra Ollivier, author of What French Women Know Matters, sees the typical style as simple with a touch of opulence – a velvet chair or an oriental rug, for example....
...The French, or rather the Bordelais, have dominated imports for some time but, as China’s most respected sommelier, Yang Lu of Shanghai’s Peninsula Hotel, explains, tastes are changing....
...Another day, another zombie movie, this time French. A handful of cops join forces with the multiracial crooks they were stalking, so both parties can escape a ghoul-besieged high-rise....
...Debra Ollivier approaches her piece of the French puzzle mostly with adoration....
...Uptown, the Garden District and the French Quarter are crucial to the city’s tourism business, and all sit on high ground....
...The sting in the tail, however, was that Philippe Varin, the Corus chief executive who would have been playing cricket for the first time, was given the task of finding a French venue for the rescheduled...
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