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...What’s the surname of the American boxing family, whose members include Jeff, Roger, Floyd Sr and Floyd Jr? Christopher Jones was the captain of which ship during its celebrated voyage of 1620?...
...Data visualisation by Cleve Jones Letter in response to this article: Deterrence tactics drive tensions in Taiwan Strait / From Michael Swaine, East Asia Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible...
...New York hedge fund stands to make over $5bn on Avis Budget share surge SRS Investment Management is sitting on well over $5bn in potential gains from yesterday’s leap in the share price of ailing rental...
...Patrick Glynn-Jones, head of Strutt & Parker’s Winchester office, says that a five- bedroom detached house came up in the summer and sold for about £1.5m....
...He was born in 1973 to George Floyd Sr and Larcenia “Cissy” Jones Floyd, one of five siblings....
...The staged robbery intended to dispose of the Volvo inevitably goes wrong, but with the upside of making junior gang member Kofi Jones (Lamar Johnson, one to watch) a convenient patsy....
...Law firm Goodwin has hired Oliver Glynn-Jones as a partner in its litigation practice, based in London. He was previously at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner....
...They inspired the curving frontage of London’s Peter Jones (1936) designed by William Crabtree. The windows of the stores marked changing seasons and changing fashions....
...If these weren’t reasons enough for the best graduates to avoid hedge funds, Mr Cohen might recall that his industry was created by edgy disrupters — himself, Paul Tudor Jones, Julian Robertson and George...
...After successfully auditioning to play their fictional selves, the Ansaris were catapulted to internet fame — in no small part due to Ansari Sr’s propensity to pepper his thickly accented English with words...
...Quincy Jones, who would go on to produce Michael Jackson, got the same response when he expressed interest in working with Otis....
...“It was an admission that they couldn’t improve their online offering without a significant transfusion of skills,” said Ivor Jones, analyst at Numis....
...Ladbrokes is searching for a new chief executive after announcing in December that Richard Glynn would be stepping down this year....
...That helped relieve some of the pressure on chief executive Richard Glynn, who has come under heavy scrutiny over Ladbrokes’ lacklustre performance. Mr Glynn said Ladbrokes was now “on track”....
...In a 70-year career, Robert Trent Jones Sr (1906-2000) designed or remodelled more than 400 golf courses....
...“Schools are also a significant draw, be they state or independent, so an easy school run is important” says Patrick Glynn-Jones of Savills....
...“We had a slow start,” says Richard Glynn, chief executive of Ladbrokes. Mr Glynn still expects total machine revenue growth of 7 or 8 per cent for the year....
...Two adages of Bob Jones Sr proved especially inspirational. They were: “The test of your character is what it takes to stop you,” and “The door to success swings on the hinges of opposition.”...
...Dagong, Egan-Jones, a small US agency, and Russia’s RusRating created the Universal Credit Rating Group. Like Arc it presents itself as the emerging world’s alternative to the big three....
...Mr Icahn Sr’s largesse was not entirely unbounded, however....
...Some companies are renegotiating contracts, says Oliver Glynn-Jones, a partner in commercial dispute resolution at Berwin Leighton Paisner, the law firm....
...Christopher Glynn, analyst at Oppenheimer, said: “This company’s strategy has been to work successfully on the acquisition front....
...Richard Glynn, Ladbrokes’ chief executive, on Friday said that a takeover would not have created value for his shareholders....
...Tamara Box, banking and capital markets partner at BLP, and Oliver Glynn-Jones, corporate and commercial disputes partner, say the ruling has wider implications for the securitisation industry....
...” … Power Player: Richard Glynn, Ladbrokes chief When Richard Glynn took over as Ladbrokes’ chief executive last April, chairman Peter Erskine told him: “If you’ve got really happy and satisfied customers...
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