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...V. Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for commercial ships....
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...John McLaurin, president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, says: “The entire supply chain is overwhelmed.”...
...“My whole tactic was to make their flesh creep,” recalls the 75-year-old peer and former merchant banker. “I threatened them with the Somme and Passchendaele....
...Tit for tat is with John Springford of the Centre for European Reform, while our Chart of the day is on the recovery in global trade....
...In February, it agreed to buy a majority stake in the storied but troubled lingerie merchant Victoria’s Secret from its parent, L Brands, for $525m....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...My dad sold “material” (it was never called fabric and woe betide anyone who called it schmattes) to Susan Small and other ready-to-wear merchants in the London Fashion House Group....
...The meat business is cyclical, said John Rogers, analyst at Moody’s. “The nutrition business is much more stable and much less cyclical,” he said....
...That’s why Bad Blood, John Carreyrou’s exposé on Theranos and the FT-McKinsey business book of the year, is so impressive....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...Stored in a tin inspired by John Nash’s Brighton Pavilion, each is more than 20cm long. penhaligons.com Follow @FTProperty on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...Miranda Green Commentator Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (2014) We often discuss how humans will develop resilience and skills to cope in the age of the robots....
...of Venice, Act V, Sc 1 “With bated breath” – The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Sc 3 I laid one or two deliberate traps, writes Jan....
...Adam Smith did describe how a merchant might be “led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention”....
...As a leader in a specialist but growing industry with few big rivals, Momart is “scaleable,” says John Foster, managing director....
...Improvements in financial technology that allow people to evade the Gesell tax are increases in the velocity of money, V....
...His fellow music executives looked down upon him as a novelty merchant with laughable taste....
...Some Chinese cities such as Beijing are moving even further ahead, with plans to force trucks and buses to adhere to a higher Euro V standard....
...There’s an upright wooden post on the river Clyde that marks the end of the launch slipway of John Brown’s shipyard....
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...Coventry’s glass was paid for by merchants dealing in blue cloth and millinery – and sometimes a combination of those, to go by a fragment showing a blue hat with a gold hat-pin....
...The cost of such measures, however, combined with the behaviour change required of merchants and consumers, present significant hurdles to this plan....
...Predecessors in the part – Patrick Magee, John Hurt, Harold Pinter – opted for a style more like naturalism. But Wilson’s Krapp is not wrong or invalid. He acts, directs and designs....
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