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...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (Basic Books) Founded in 1958 by businessman Robert Welch, the John Birch Society was so fiercely anticommunist and...
...Courage Bagels, Silver Lake, LAKarla Welch, celebrity stylist“They serve Montreal-style bagels, which are the best in all the land....
...In 1954, Joseph Nye Welch, chief counsel for the US army, responded to the red-baiting of Senator Joe McCarthy by asking “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”...
...Yalda Hakim, broadcasterBook: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson “Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle taps into the way I feel about Afghanistan....
...There were also 300 silver coins, an old Roman road and pottery from France, suggesting that the town was a wealthy trading hub, according to West....
...Unusually, at the site in Darlington, the local council doesn't run the facility directly, but has contracted the work out to Welch....
...Karla Welch, stylist Pieces of pottery from a special trip to Greece. We went to Pelion, which has little mountain villages we visited every night for dinner....
...In France and the UK, buying homes with borrowed money reduces the value of the home subject to inheritance tax. And the mortgaged portion of a home’s value is exempt from France’s wealth tax....
...He fled to France and then the US, and ended up studying at Columbia University....
...Her travels in Italy, England, Belgium and France continued until the second world war, when she returned home to London and remained for nearly the duration of the war....
...He also mis-hit with an ill-structured and overpriced deal for France’s Alstom and a mistimed expansion into oil and gas services before energy prices slumped....
...The waiter arrives, not with food, but with the phone: “A Frances Welch?” Brown’s wife, a historian, is calling about his unsent column. He resumes the RNA sequencing....
...Its September flying restart scenario suggested a cash low point of £290m pre-£300m CCFF drawn down and £98m Fowler Welch proceeds....
...“The coastguard said their binoculars were so powerful, they could read the headlines of a newspaper in France,” says Naylor. “Though I’ve never quite believed it.”...
...Meanwhile, was GE legend Jack Welch as good as his myth, or was he also lucky? (Bloomberg) The age of irrelevance?...
...But it also reflected the lustre accorded to Mr Welch by the stock market....
...One EU official compared Mr Kaeser’s efforts to persuade Brussels to the legendary mis-steps of GE chief Jack Welch, who marched into the commission’s Brussels headquarters wearing cowboy boots and slammed...
...The sketch of Jack Welch, Mr Immelt’s revered predecessor, is equally well-observed. “With Jack, there was no distinction between ‘I am this company’ and ‘I lead this company’,” Ms Comstock writes....
...Another compared it to Jack Welch’s cowboy-booted, table-banging attempt to rescue the GE-Honeywell deal....
...General Electric is extending its retreat from the conglomerate model it championed in the Jack Welch era....
...management technique — aimed at eliminating defects in processes and products — came to the fore in the 1990s, thanks to Motorola, where it was invented, and General Electric, whose chief executive Jack Welch...
...Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics, Hoover Institute, Former Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Mark Weinberger, Global Chairman and CEO, EY Jack Welch...
...(Let us not speak of the 1975 Merchant Ivory film with Raquel Welch as Queenie.)...
...“The sale has been helpful,” Peattie explains in measured tones over the telephone from France....
...Mr Immelt also made some bold acquisitions, strengthening GE’s position in power generation and related equipment by buying the energy businesses of Alstom of France, steering the deal through a difficult...
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