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...The V&A show includes eight spectacular works by American designer Bob Mackie, now 83, whose pieces have been worn by Cher, Tina Turner and, more recently, Pink....
...Intel chief executive Bob Swan said the company would continue to invest in its 5G network infrastructure business, but review production of 4G and 5G modems in PCs and “internet of things” devices....
...“The way you think about algorithms is wildly and completely different,” says Bob Sutor of IBM....
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...One of Bob Iger’s early moves at Disney in his 12 years as chief executive was to cut the number of films it produced, reorienting its output around family movies....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Glitz (1985), the first of his novels to make the New York Times best-seller list, is set in Atlantic City and Puerto Rico; Maximum Bob (1991) in Palm Beach....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Admittedly, with age came the unveiling of Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee in their human, fallible and – Bradlee aside – slightly frumpy reality, but it didn’t matter....
...Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar ● No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone , by Tom Bower ● Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty , by Abhijit V....
...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...He remembers uncapping a black marker to write: R squared over A is V+, in what he calls a type of epiphany....
...The super-large Gulfstream V/G500 went from $42m to $25.4m over the same period....
...People usually head back to the shops after downturns to buy all the things they had been putting off when times were tough, helping the economy spring back in a cheerful V-shape....
...In a wonderfully chilling antidote for the “above expectation-istas”, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Thursday’s Daily Telegraph seizes on the latest note from RBS’s chief credit strategist Bob Janjuah (whose...
...Most famously, Michael Eisner and Bob Iger struck a deal for Walt Disney to buy Capital Cities-ABC on the Sun Valley golf course in 1996....
...Also at Wednesday’s lunch was Bob Iger, the chief executive of Walt Disney; Harvey Weinstein, who founded Miramax; and Barry Diller, chief executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp, who is attending the conference...
...“Iraq is like Vietnam without the jungles,” says Bob “Too Tall” Kenney, vice-president for government programs at Bell Helicopter....
...The picture he paints, short of Hamlet but redolent of Henry V, possesses a psychological and dramatic coherence which makes it eminently plausible and readable....
...Bob Lewis, AIG’s chief risk officer, indicated that it would take events of “Depression proportions” for AIG to suffer....
...Bob Rivet, AMD chief financial officer, tried to paint a brighter picture and characterised the past year as “the good, the bad and the ugly”....
...What part was played by his lover Toni Mannix (Diane Lane), wife of an MGM bigwig (Bob Hoskins) with a crime-by-association history?...
...Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays Capital, who is set to join the main board of Barclays, could also make the shortlist....
...V. Mr Buffett is sticking to his core competencies. VI. Concerns about retailers and the ailing consumer may be overblown, if Mr Buffett's bets are correct. VII....
...“Machine translation [using software] has an accuracy rate of about 60 per cent,” says Alison Crawford, a research analyst....
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