Hints and tips:
...That’s down to a) nostalgia, b) the fact that vinyl looks and feels nicer, and c) the belief that it sounds better....
...“If you’re not having those conversations as a board, or as a C-suite, I would argue, you are on the borderline of not exercising your fiduciary duty to shareholders.”...
...The sector is “financially risky and morally bankrupt”, according to Scott Stringer, New York City comptroller....
...One complete connectome has been established — that for the tapeworm C. elegans, which has some 307 neurons and 7,000 synapses....
...Scott Stringer, the New York City comptroller or chief financial officer, described the vote as a “watershed moment for ExxonMobil’s shareowners”....
...The corporate titan Sir Howard Stringer was practically the first gaijin to run a big Japanese company: the electronics group Sony. It required Herculean ambition and huge sacrifices....
...“Sony and Nissan are different cases, though I do think Stringer could have been more aggressive.”...
...After months of having to play defence at the helm of Sony over exploding batteries and the underwhelming launch of its latest games console, Howard Stringer has a superhero on his side....
...Elena Scott-Forbes was a fund manager for 17 years, the last five as a director of F&C Management and its head of European equities....
...Nikko Principal will buy a 51 per cent stake in a holding company to be established by Sony, comprising Sony Plaza, B&C Laboratories, Lifeneo, Sony Family Club and Maxim’s de Paris....
...Built on the “stick-and-stringer” principle, with light wooden frames sheathed in fabric instead of timber planking, early Boeings, such as the Model C training seaplane, were like featherweight avian boats...
...Asked in front of Thielen why he was not at Stringer’s event, he was overheard saying: “I have been to so many of Howard’s. I’d much rather be here.”...
...Sir Howard Stringer, the Welsh-born boss of Sony, has declared war on them. At Morgan Stanley, new chief executive John Mack has vowed to smash them....
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