Hints and tips:
...Sally Matthews’s Blanche is alternately tremulous or squally, with often indistinct diction; Paul Gay as her father, the Marquis de la Force, brays tensely....
...Job moves UK sportswear retailer JD Sports has appointed French retail veteran Régis Schultz as its new chief executive....
...In the US, executives are now regularly touted as presidential candidates, from JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon (who has denied any such ambition) to Starbucks’ former chairman Howard Schultz (who is considering...
...Almost all Democrats are hoping that Howard Schultz, the founder and former chief executive of Starbucks, will not proceed with a campaign as an independent....
...“A colleague went to [Starbucks’] annual shareholder meeting a few years ago and Howard Schultz himself told him to sit down and sell the stock,” says Mr Netzly....
...Starbucks’ Howard Schultz has begun hiring political operatives, including John McCain’s former campaign chairman....
...(FT) In the news Schultz 2020? Over 36 years, Howard Schultz transformed Starbucks into the world’s largest coffee chain....
...It’s quite a leap to go from that mentality to say ‘actually, I am gay’.”...
...In the 1970s, keen to discredit Senator Henry Jackson — a sponsor of punitive trade legislation against the USSR — the KGB forged FBI documents alleging that the senator was gay and sent them to major US...
...woman.” 17 Trevor Burgess President & CEO, C1 Financial “I am the first openly gay chief executive of a publicly traded bank in the US and one of only three openly gay chief executives of public companies...
...But he is not the only US business leader advocating for a deeply-held personal belief — so have Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com on the same issue, and Howard Schultz of Starbucks on racial discrimination...
...The company has a long history of engaging with social issues, including hiring military veterans, asking gun owners to stop bringing weapons to its stores and supporting gay marriage....
...Former wrestler Mark Schultz, played in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher by Channing Tatum, has been enraged by the suggestion of a gay relationship between himself and sports philanthropist John du Pont, and...
...Richard Branson is a deserving number one for this: he has been supporting the gay community for very many years....
...During retirement he read a lot of books about comeback kings such as Starbucks’ Howard Schultz and Steve Jobs. He felt “glad to have a chance to run the company as he wanted it”....
...mesmerising movie, an early tip for Oscars, which though tangentially about sports – the tangled, ultimately fatal relationship between Olympic sponsor/trainer du Pont and wrestling brothers Mark and Dave Schultz...
...Chemicals dynasty heir John du Pont (Carell) did kill a man in the 1990s: gold medallist and team coach Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), brother of the Tatum-played Mark....
...Other companies that supported gay marriage were equally reticent on gun control....
...The Starbucks chief executive has taken strong stands on divisive issues in the past, advocating same-sex marriage and supporting legalisation of gay unions in its home state of Washington....
...The Democratic national convention has had a decidedly liberal tone, with speakers repeatedly celebrating Mr Obama’s support for gay marriage and arguing in favour of abortion and contraceptive rights for...
...But Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, didn’t betray any nervousness that Mr Romney wasn’t being sufficiently tarnished by his Republican rivals....
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