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...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...Additional reporting by George Russell...
...As George Orwell noted in a 1940 essay, Dickens was not as much of a social reformer as is often thought....
...Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman made $610.5m in pay and dividends last year, while KKR’s Henry Kravis and George Roberts received $80.6m and $84.5m, respectively....
...Given that the Sacklers company Purdue Pharma manufactured and marketed the addictive pain medication OxyContin, which is at the heart of the deadly opioid crisis in the US....
...Given the fines it has faced for its advice to Purdue Pharma on opioid use and companies linked to the disgraced Gupta brothers in South Africa, other writers might have been more nuanced....
...The elite management consultancy has agreed a total $574m settlement with most US states and several territories over its role in helping Purdue Pharma and others sell the opioids that fuelled America’s...
...The 40-year shift towards what President George W Bush referred to as an “ownership society” came at a time when the nature of the corporation and the compact between business and society was changing, too...
...(FT) Two men charged in assault of US Capitol officer US authorities have arrested and charged Julian Elie Khater, 32, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, with allegedly spraying a chemical substance at Brian...
...Both the Republican candidates, David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler, are echoing Mr Trump’s line of a stolen presidential election. Their stance risks confusing Republican voters....
...In the end, Purdue’s parent company would plead guilty in 2007 for the aggressive manner in which it marketed OxyContin....
...Twenty years ago, Fred Goodwin was gearing up to lead the bank, on an expansionist ticket inherited from his predecessor George Mathewson....
...One treats porphyria, the rare disease which King George III suffered from, while the other treats the nerve damage associated with another rare disease....
...Boeing or Purdue Pharma may leap out, but RepRisk, a Swiss ESG rating company, has chosen to eschew such widely known examples for its 2019 ranking of the world’s most controversial companies....
...My dad, as you know, was a Turkish immigrant to the Midwest and enjoyed inviting some of the young Turkish students who studied engineering at nearby Purdue University to come over and help us flip burgers...
...It was supposedly identified by former US president George W Bush: “The French have no word for entrepreneur.”...
...What you’ve been saying Britain will soon be free to export its magic delusions: letter from George Horsington, Edlibach, Switzerland As a major breeder and exporter of unicorns, yetis and chimeras, I...
...The race to decide the fastest man in water was decided in the aquatics centre, when USA’s Anthony Ervin won the men’s 50m freestyle....
...Meanwhile, a George Eliot quote on friendship has been a constant presence for 30 years and the boxing glove was a gift from Sugar Ray Leonard....
...After studying management at Purdue university, he formally joined the family firm and became president in 2002....
...In the US state of Illinois, an average farm’s break-even price for corn will be $4.61 a bushel in 2016, according to Michael Langemeier of Purdue University....
...When George Osborne and Yanis Varoufakis met in London earlier this year, the two finance ministers seemed an odd couple — and not just for their clashing outfits....
...Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement last year that grandparents could qualify for SPL in the future could also dissuade fathers from taking it....
...Reagan’s White House chief of staff, brought in to restore order and morale in the depth of the Iran-Contra scandals of the late 1980s and, as a coda to his career, as US Ambassador to Japan under President George...
...He explains how the Protestant God was introduced to Wenzhou by a one-legged “Scottish peasant” missionary called George Stott, who arrived in 1867 and stayed for 23 years....
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