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...If there is one global celebrity who reflects small-c conservative values better than Taylor Swift, I struggle to think who that may be....
...Plus: a new C-suite at Asos; Shaftesbury and CapCo agree merger terms; and trading updates from Asos (warning) + Boohoo (weak Q1) — Aliens?...
...“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” is the third law of the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke, and inventors were feted as magicians in the late 19th century....
...AIB director Rachel Goslins says, “When it opened there was a female sculpture at its centre holding aloft a lightbulb, which Edison had only invented nine months before....
...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...‘Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond’, January 2021, sothebys.com...
...There are no sound recordings before Edison’s phonograph in 1877, and the earliest decipherable music notation is about 500BC....
...At the same time, he divided staff into “A, B and C players”, ranked on a “vitality curve”, with the Cs in the bottom 10 per cent ruthlessly ditched....
...One of the most influential Friedman adherents remains Republican SEC commissioner Hester Peirce....
...ebitda loss of c €11m for Takeaway.com.”...
...“The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis” by Martha C Nussbaum is published by Oxford University Press; she will deliver a lecture at the YTL Centre, King’s College London, on November...
...The business of advising on corporate bankruptcy is one in which two of McKinsey’s fabled strengths — vast C-suite relationships across sectors and discretion — have become millstones....
...And it will be difficult for Japan’s C-suite to ignore this....
...But it seems the cult of “manly wakefulness” (as coined by inventor and sleep aversionist Thomas Edison in the early part of the 20th century) still lingers....
...William C Dement, MD, PhD, who is considered the father of modern sleep medicine, is my long-time mentor at Stanford. For the past 16 years, he has inspired and guided me....
...above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C’.”...
...Dawn broke Sunday in Sandwich, Massachusetts with the air minus 18°C. Out on Freezer Road, the Canal Generating Station was burning fuel oil to make electricity....
...’s tech giant Alibaba is working on a neural network chip capable of carrying out AI functions such as facial and speech recognition with substantially less power, and is also acquiring local chipmaker C-Sky...
...Sanford C. Bernstein is not a research firm to be held back by sells-side conventions....
...“They’re definitely going to have to price it highly, or they wouldn’t have bought Kite for nearly $12bn,” says Maxim Jacobs, analyst at Edison, who estimates the treatment will go on sale at roughly $750,000...
...There has been just one with a 20-year term, for Venture Global’s proposed plant in Louisiana, with Edison of Italy, for 1m tonnes per year....
...B&M has grown rapidly under Sir Terry’s stewardship for the past half decade, with annual revenues rising from £993m to c.£2.7bn. Its store portfolio has increased from 331 shops to 893....
...Britain pioneered the use of coal to produce electricity when Thomas Edison switched on the world’s first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London in 1882, providing electric lighting...
...But new overhead lines will be needed in future, for example to connect the proposed Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset to the National Grid....
...“It’s not just the Waksal thing, though that does have an impact,” said Maxim Jacobs, an analyst at Edison. “It’s completely running on fumes, they [had] to go public, or essentially go bankrupt.”...
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