Hints and tips:
...(a) (of a gem) uncut, unpolished; (b) (of water) undistilled; not filtered; (c) (of alcoholic spirit) undiluted; (d) (of grain) unmalted, undried; (e) (of sewage) untreated. I.2.e....
...As a Brit mainly living in the US — and still without a hint of any tell-tale transatlantic twang — he misses simple food from home....
...A free programme of music, theatre and food called In the Neighbourhood runs alongside....
...US to deploy B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China mount The US plans to deploy up to six B-52 bombers, which carry nuclear or conventional weapons, to Australia in Washington’s latest effort...
...“At the end of the day, money talks and you’d rather have [the PIF] as a partner.” It was not just golf that was stunned....
...Management, whose assemblage of Nordic Modernism runs to 5,500 works by 300 artists....
...S&P executives tried to negotiate a licensing deal but never seemed to get anywhere. Without an agreement, they’d be buying a house without most of the land on which it was built....
...(The letter “n” is next to the letter “h” on a QWERTY keyboard, which explains the first typo. The “b” was a mystery.) Until I could fix this, I had to negotiate to get anywhere....
...Morisano shakes his head. “What?” Bailey says. “So anyone can cook my food?” There’s a pattern to their back-and-forth: raise an eyebrow, lightly tease and follow with a heavy dose of loyalty....
...As monetary policy works with a lag, and since there is now clear evidence of a) recession and b) that headline inflation has peaked, further hikes on a risk-management basis would be misguided....
...Joe’s still has old-world charm and delicious food, and you still usually have to queue for a table....
...“We’d bought pasta, we’d bought jars of tomatoes, we’d bought wild oregano, so we thought, let’s have a little shop....
...For a flavour ban bill to become law, we will need (a) a Democratic sweep, (b) change to the filibuster process in the Senate, and (c)tobacco to be a high priority for Democrats, which it currently isn’t...
...I think that B assets are getting priced like A assets and A assets are getting priced like A+ assets,” he says....
...We currently model WFH to represent 10% of half of B&I going forward (B&I c40% of revenue) and our estimates sit c10% below consensus in FY21 onwards....
...If you think about it, it’s a good combination: as the name suggests, IFF specialises in flavour and fragrances used in food while DuPont’s N&B business is all about textures....
...At the start of 2019, it forecast a daily output this year of 93,000-101,000 barrels, though that has already been cut three times to 87,000 b/d....
...Management have noted a 20-25% decline in Group revenues over the past 3 weeks....
...His belief in Brexit parallels his faith in the British pub as a demos, in which everyone has a voice — like a Wetherspoons management meeting....
...It could either be a) CITIC Capital's January purchase of French beauty business Axilone b) Oaktree's sale of serviced apartment company SACO to Brookfield Asset Management for £430m in February or c) buyout...
...Its new plans were welcomed by Trian, one of the activist funds that had been pressing for a shake up at DuPont since taking a stake in 2014....
...The most common requests were for spin-offs, a sale of the company, a management shake-up, board seats, share buybacks or a restructuring....
...Corvex, according to people familiar with the fund’s thinking, is not planning a campaign to shake up management or demand board seats at Danone, which has a market value of €45bn....
...“I’d say to our designer: make the B on the headphones bigger,” Iovine recalls. “And he’d say, ‘I don’t know . . . it’s too big.’ We are competing with headphones but we’re also competing with Nike....
...The beach is adjacent to a busy road lined with fast-food restaurants bearing names such as Steak ’n’ Shake, and billboard adverts promising “The biggest paint party on the island”....
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