Hints and tips:
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Right now the survey-based data used by the World Bank are the most comprehensive, the breadth of coverage necessary for estimating global inequality.**** But this paper by Alvaredo et al notes that wid.world...
...Evidence from the UK shows that there is some profitability reduction for firms, but no effect on firm exits (Draca et al., 2011). The minimum wage is a powerful redistributive tool (Freeman, 1996)....
...Julien Frydman Director of Paris Photo A little place I know is . . . Al Dar (8 rue Frédéric Sauton, 5th) where I’ve been going for 20 years, for the best Lebanese takeaway....
...Brennan et al went back to survey the participants six months after the move and found not only that they were still unhappy with their new office, but that their team relations had broken down even further...
...The book trade may be held up by the blockbusters – JK Rowling, Stieg Larsson, EL James et al, but Foyles’ market is different....
...The decision to send even a small number of troops back to Iraq represents a striking change of heart for Mr Obama, whose two presidential election campaigns were built around a pledge to end the US-led...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Abd Al Malik is a French hip-hop artist whose potent lyrics and poised rapping have made him into a brooding poster boy for contemporary, multicultural France....
...For roots there is L’Oréal Paris Préférence Mousse Absolue (£10.99), a reusable home colourant that can be used all over the hair or for targeting grey strands....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...A generation ago, when the prospect of a career at the stoves was still a twinkle in the eye of Heston, René et al, Frédy Girardet was unanimously thought of as the world’s best chef....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Personally (yes, here we go, it’s comment time), I think Mrs P is taking a cue from Ms S and her surrealist buddies, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, et al....
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