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...As well as using the Athens event to announce the retirement of Rebecca Irvin — who has headed the initiative since its inception — Rolex chief executive Jean-Frédéric Dufour voiced his belief that it should...
...Frederic, Lord Leighton was born into a well-to-do family in 1830, studied in Europe and, from a young age, gained a reputation as a talented artist....
...Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart champagne’s chef de caveLe Monde sans Fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain A graphic novel about the finite resources of the earth....
...“We have a view that the recovery will be more U shaped than V shaped in most countries,” he said....
...In France, the finance minister and bank governor now speak daily to Frédéric Oudéa, chief executive of Société Générale, a bank that became a pariah in 2008 following a rogue trader scandal....
...Frédéric Tardy, chief marketing officer at Zurich, said the key thing is to match the sponsorship with the target market....
...Hermès is by far my favourite shop, and I have slowly collected men’s V-neck cashmere sweaters from there....
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...Le Relais marks a new beginning, a novel collaboration between the French government, hotel group Marugal and entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset (and his slightly terrifying mother)....
...“Investors are starved for growth,” said Lise Buyer, an IPO adviser at Class V Group....
...The V&A continued to acquire Cameron’s work, mainly from various donors, after her lifetime....
...Jacques-Antoine Granjon Vente-Privee French Known as “JAG”, the billionaire businessman sports long locks and V-neck T-shirts that reveal plenty of chest hair....
...The grower v merchant playing field is more level than ever and the majority of négociant businesses are every bit as motivated by quality as the small growers....
...Hermès also worked with the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris to create a hand-built Rolls-Royce Phantom, custom-made to the hotel’s specifications....
...The V&A’s poster image is Frederic Leighton’s “Pavonia” (1859): glassy, black-haired Italian model Nanna Risi turns alluringly to glance over her shoulder, while behind her spreads a huge ornamental fan...
...However, economists have been saying for some time that China is one of many countries in emerging Asia where a surge in inflation that began during the region’s V-shaped recovery from the world financial...
...- The case against Latin, courtesy of Frederic Bastiat (via Econlog). - What our friends at FT Tilt are up to....
...Standing amid the shoppers thronging Asia’s capitals it looks very much as though the region’s V-shaped recovery is steaming ahead....
...The house champagne, from grower Jacques Copinet, is excellent while the martini, served in a V-shaped glass resting on another glass full of ice cubes, was described to me by a cosmopolitan Hong Kong friend...
...The region’s economy could be on a similar path, in spite of a V-shaped recovery that has increased gross domestic product in Asia excluding Japan by 9 per cent between April 2009 and June this year....
...The cases – Boris Berezovsky v Roman Abramovich and Michael Cherney v Oleg Deripaska – are seen as potential sources of political and commercial embarrassment to Russia....
...“I would not call it a robust recovery, but we are forecasting a V-shaped recovery,” says Mr Lee....
...One can only hope it travels to London’s V&A or the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in New York. Lacroix is often in Arles; he has a home here....
...Officials would prefer a V-shaped path – rate cuts, to the extent necessary, taken back quickly as markets return to normal. Whether this is achievable is another matter....
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