Hints and tips:
...You may not have heard of Officer’s Choice, Royal Stag or McDowell’s, but these Indo-Scotch blends do huge volumes on their home turf....
...In finance, the “Maturity Wall” is a near-mythical beast conjured up to scare small children, skittish investors and chief financial officers into pulling the trigger on bond sales....
...“We had a classic blank canvas,” Unboxed’s chief creative officer tells me over coffee in Birmingham, where the festival is headquartered....
...“We see a future where renewables are going to start dominating the energy system,” Mr McDowell said. This matters....
...Ian Lawrence, general secretary of Napo, the probation officers’ union, welcomed the plans and called Mr Grayling’s reforms an “untested social experiment”....
...The FAI conceded two weeks ago that recent analyses from Mr McDowell and others amount to “a compelling scientific case”....
...It signed up Malcolm McDowell, the British actor known for his roles in A Clockwork Orange and Caligula, to narrate one episode....
...Recommended to CEO by his probation officer, he spent this week weeding as part of a work crew, a typical transitional job....
...The group announced a further shake-up in senior management with three executives stepping down: Jerri DeVard, executive vice-president and chief marketing officer; Mary McDowell, executive vice-president...
...Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg, WH Allen, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$24.95 This manifesto for the advancement of women in the workplace, by Facebook’s chief operating officer,...
...Ways of Going Home, by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell, Granta, RRP£12.99, 160 pages A slim but thrilling novel from one of Chile’s outstanding young writers....
...“This is one branch of the travel business where the customer is not always right,” says McDowell....
...Kathryn McDowell, MD, London Symphony Orchestra. Christopher Morahan, stage director. Sandy Nairne, director, National Portrait Gallery. Bill Parfitt, chairman and CEO, General Motors UK....
...Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, offered a potential solution in an online video for Fast Company magazine....
...McDowell, the executive in charge of Nokia’s mobile phones unit, asked to go. - Niklas Savander, the manager of the markets unit, asked to go. - Kai Oistamo, chief development officer, asked to go....
...Ken Olguin, the immigration officer who seized my BlackBerry that dark day in 2007, has been found to be taking bribes....
...“Mobile financial services offer a market opportunity with long-term growth potential,” said Mary McDowell, Nokia chief development officer....
...Scott McClellan, the White House press officer, took a spin through Florida as well. The president also doesn’t seem too worried about questions over Washington’s revolving door....
...Jeff Clarke has become chief operating officer at Computer Associates, while Webb McKinney, who had once run HP's salesforce, was pushed into retirement....
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