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...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
...past creative director Tom Ford....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...And Carrie Reichardt’s tribute to Stoke-on-Trent’s rave culture in the early 1990s — focused on Shelley’s nightclub in Longton, and covering an original 1969 Ford Zephyr in vibrantly hand-painted ceramic...
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...(Henry Ford drew up a single-seat aircraft called the Ford Flivver in 1926.) Some have flown but none has been cheap, appealing and safe enough to reach the mass market....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...She’s from Detroit, Michigan, spent her whole life there, and she works for Ford Motors in finance management....
...For example, Doherty’s small Conical Vessel V is priced at £350. These independent artisans are, on the whole, seeing the benefit of social media platforms such as Instagram....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...“It’s like a Shakespeare scene,” said V.S. Naipaul. “Only 300 words are spoken but, goodness, terrific things happen!”...
...Their exploits aboard a brace of R1150GSs led to a surge in sales of the model and a race by rival manufacturers to develop comparable machines that could tackle unmettled roads, ford rivers and climb mountains...
.../ From Steve Essrig, New York, NY, US How Indonesia compares with the House of Lords / From Glyn Ford, Labour MEP 1984-2009, Oldham, Lancashire, UK...
...The ICCR, which controls $400bn in assets through 300 member organisations, has targeted 40 companies with similar resolutions this year, including Amazon, BlackRock, Ford and Walt Disney....
...The latest move to address shortages could involve approving Russia’s Sputnik V inoculation....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...As a result, the prospects for a V-shaped recovery have brightened....
...Will it be a V-shaped rebound, or some troubling variety of a U? Or, God forbid, an L?...
...The US title, Ford v Ferrari, is more direct and honest: hot heads and hot rods, Michigan against Modena, no room for nuance, black and white (all white, in fact)....
...Equity investors make bets on future earnings and many analysts argue soaring stock indices suggest a rapid, V-shaped economic recovery is being priced in. But this explanation is too simplistic....
...Many seem to have gravitated to a general “win-win” market positioning that bets on either a V-shaped economic recovery, the effectiveness of central banks’ backstops, or both....
...Certain models had gone up by 40 times in 10 years, says Mr Wind, who notes “a resurgence in interest” after last year’s release of the film Ford v Ferrari in which actor Matt Damon wears a vintage Carrera...
...There should be a way to do things differently in the cities v the counties.” The closure of churches worries him....
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