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...With its takeover of Southeastern Grocers, which owns Winn-Dixie and Harveys, it is moving into more conventional supermarket territory....
...But amid that gloom, there is a more recent happy, if rare, example of how the system can work....
...A friend who works in TV gave me some advice: “Don’t try to act.” This proved invaluable. I fumbled with my iPhone, and desperately tried not to act. Not acting is harder than it sounds....
...“All of a sudden, it looks like Berkshire will put about $30bn to work in a year’s time,” Shanahan added....
...Its Powerloop division will rent tractor-trailers to small and medium-sized carriers that use Uber Freight. Uber has signed up big shippers including Budweiser brewer AB InBev to use the service....
...Do the established stars he works with have the same struggles? “I wouldn’t even say struggles. [It’s] work ethic....
...“It’s very difficult to give up on what you know how to do and a model that works....
...The commission said BlackRock’s work would be only one input among many that would inform its policymaking....
...Fatigue drained through my internal organs while watching the trailer for the upcoming newsroom drama, The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon....
...The chairman and chief executive of United Parcel Service joined the delivery company while he was in college, taking a holiday job in 1974 loading packages on to trailers because he wanted cash to take...
...(FT) PE and trailer parks With roughly 1 in 15 Americans living in trailer parks, US private equity firms have come knocking....
...So far, the trailer has been viewed more than 50m times on YouTube....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 11 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As if that was not enough, Uber also runs Powerloop, which rents trailers to truckers. Breadth comes at the expense of revenue growth. Losses are widening....
...“I remember going to his trailer and everything was monogrammed....
...Order strip steak and baked potato as reward for a hard day’s work and sleep in the 48-inch-wide bunk of his cab....
...As a child, 82-year-old Charles likes to recall, their father put him to work in the 100-degree Kansas summers, uprooting dandelions, baling hay, milking cows and digging ditches....
...Today, the company has about 40 employees operating out of a couple of trailers in a car park close to SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, south-west of Los Angeles, where its first test tunnel is nearing...
...The philosophical question at the heart of Abramović’s work, she says in a filmed trailer, is whether the new degree of immersion enabled by VR can result in increased empathy, “with the present and future...
...Related links: The Jungle - Upton Sinclair A conversation about how public transport really works - FT Alphaville...
...Ms Hardy and colleagues designed an app to track tourists and work out how and where they spend their time....
...“Norway has been the proving ground that electric cars work in a society. The system works,” says Ketil Solvik-Olsen, Norway’s transport minister and a fan of gas-guzzling American classic cars....
...Yet when Lily produced that video, the company had only five employees and much of the development work required to deliver on its vision still lay ahead....
...The story demonstrates the role that data now play in entertainment industry decision making — Netflix was even able to produce several trailers targeted at its various audience categories....
...A voiceover on a season six trailer intones: “The past is already written. The ink is dry.” But the saga is not finished....
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