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...Buffett takes a firmly hands-off approach to Berkshire’s businesses, but makes an exception for insurance, which spans Geico, the National Indemnity Company, and vast reinsurance operations, including Gen...
...and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...The details of the company’s decline are complex but essentially it overexpanded, an investor took over, and Cox left in 2007....
...But this year the heir apparent to the $710bn business that includes the BNSF railroad, private jet operator NetJets and insurer Geico, as well as the other public and private groups Berkshire has invested...
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Nasa administrator Bill Nelson called cost-plus contracts such as this “the old way of doing business” when he testified before Congress in May....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...That’s good for cyclicals or companies whose EPSs get a boost from a rebound in economic activity; not so good for financials....
...more than 90 per cent since March, and a V-shape recovery is no longer in the cards....
...(The company labels these changes as a “comprehensive change in the management board” though you might have a different description.)...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...But to a younger generation some of these objects are increasingly as alien as objects in the V&A or the British Museum.”...
...The results can be manipulated by the public and will be projected on to Nelson’s column....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...(FT) Zuckerberg v Cook Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at Tim Cook’s veiled criticism of Facebook’s data policies, saying the suggestion that his company did not care about its users was “extremely glib” and...
...The float climbed $14bn from the end of 2016, driven largely by a $10.2bn cash payment from American International Group, after Berkshire subsidiary National Indemnity Company agreed to shoulder some of...
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