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...Abrdn’s chair Sir Douglas Flint and Schroders chief executive Peter Harrison are among the top City figures underscoring the importance of remuneration to attract top talent....
...That means when you walk into a brand-name hotel today, no matter whether your room costs $50 or $500, chances are it is the hospitality equivalent of a McDonald’s....
...On one especially disturbing excursion, “there is not even a McDonald’s to be seen.”...
...McDonald’s, meanwhile, read out no questions about the tumultuous exit of its former chief....
...Sullivan & Cromwell is appointing Jamie McDonald as a partner in New York. He was previously director of enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...Chinese retaliation could also harm classic American export brands, such as McDonald’s and Disney, he adds....
...One reason the president favoured the cuisine of McDonald’s, Mr Wolff writes, was because of a “longtime fear of being poisoned”....
...However, Douglas Schwartz, director of the respected Quinnipiac University Poll, said the primaries earlier this year had proved the theory of the shy Trump supporter wrong....
...Douglas Coupland is currently artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris. He also has a museum show at Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art....
...Arnaud, a tall 25-year-old in a green fleece pocked with ash burns, says that he was heading straight for a job at McDonald’s before he chanced upon 42 in 2013....
...“When McDonald’s boasts about artisanal chicken, you know the message has gone awry,” says Mr Openshaw....
...This month, McDonald’s unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan....
...The very size and heft of the industry is an unappreciated risk for markets, says Douglas Peebles, head of fixed-income at AllianceBernstein....
...Douglas Coupland’s most recent novel, ‘Worst. Person. Ever.’, is published by William Heinemann. Twitter: @dougcoupland...
...Andrea Felsted EARNINGS AT&T Q1 $0.63 ($0.71)Boeing Q1 $1.84 ($1.76)eBay Q1 $0.70 ($0.70)Facebook Q1 $0.40 ($0.34)McDonald’s Q1 $1.07($1.21)Tesco FY 10.13p (32.05p) Trading and sales updates: Heineken,...
...In the late 1970s, Douglas Adams (also satirically) posited the Shoe Event Horizon....
...Douglas Hunter, author of a 2012 book on the doughnut and coffee chain’s rise, said that since it overtook McDonald’s as the largest fast-food operator in Canada in 2002, Tim Hortons has “really become a...
...There had been a bit of toing and froing about where we might eat since — as she put it in an email — the only restaurant she had seen in London was McDonald’s....
...He disputed allegations that the company targets African-Americans by using prominent black athletes like gymnast Gabby Douglas and basketball player LeBron James....
...Talks with Pershing Square were mediated by JPMorgan Chase banker Douglas Braunstein, an adviser to Air Products, and a detente was reached after Mr Ackman met the board on September 18....
...This magnificent work by Douglas White warns (J.G. Ballard-style) of nature’s revenge on civilisation, but it is a nature horribly transformed by the human intervention to which it reacts....
...(In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything” is 42.)...
...The group, which in February saw the surprise departure of Stephen Thomas, chief executive and founder, also announced it had parted ways with Robert McDonald, finance director....
...He was followed three months later by Robert McDonald, finance director and Alan Jackson, chairman....
...He now works as a substitute teacher when he can but has not been able to find regular work even at a local McDonald’s. Neither has health insurance....
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