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...“Think like the Sims,” says Sierra, who visualises “virtual performances — like Coachella, with a stage, and as a user you can go in, walk around freely, dance with people and immerse within the world.”...
...Mr Sims estimates that by 2020, his £550m a year budget will have fallen by a third since the coalition government came to power....
...Helen Warrell is the FT’s public policy correspondent Photographs: Rob Ball...
...However, the move was immediately criticised by Chris Sims, chief constable of West Midlands Police, who called Mr Clarke’s appointment “desperately unfortunate”....
...Capita agreed to provide staff and monitoring; Astrium to provide mapping software; Buddi, the ankle bracelets; and Telefónica the sim cards for the bracelets....
...“Customers are taking advantage of new ways to shop and pay,” said Helen Dickinson, the director-general of the BRC....
...But Mr Sims is unapologetic....
...Could this really provide a future blueprint to help Mr Sims, Ms Owens and others in deciding where they should draw the (thin blue) line?...
...Chris Sims, chief constable of West Midlands Police, defended his plans, in an interview with the Financial Times this week, on the basis that the armed forces already contract private companies to provide...
...“This isn’t us saying to a private provider, ‘do away and deliver what we are currently delivering for less money’ ”, Mr Sims said....
...Derek Campbell, general manager at Sims Metal Management, said that while his scrap yards across South Wales and the South West tended to have good contact with the local bobby, law enforcement authorities...
...Boon Sim, global head of M&A at Credit Suisse, argues that the low cost of funding means using cash is still attractive....
...Boon Sim, global head of M&A at Credit Suisse, said the deal conversion rate was not what it was at the beginning of the year, when there was high pent-up demand....
...Of course, the fact that CuteCircuit’s M-Dress, launched in 2007, was a good-looking little black dress as well as one that functioned as a mobile phone (the SIM card was concealed under the dress label...
...,” says Helen Bostock, horticultural adviser to the RHS. “There has certainly been a conflict of feeling about wildlife gardening.”...
...It is only a matter time before bigger LBOs, between $8bn and $10bn, get done”, says Boon Sim, global head of M&A at Credit Suisse. Valuations placed on businesses by private equity rose....
...Andrew Sim, at his first fair, has a recently discovered watercolour by the mad Victorian artist Richard Dadd, while from Paris Gallerie Peirce has works by the impressionist Maximilien Luce....
...These include, among others, in ceramics Spira, Richard Slee, Martin Smith and Carole McNicoll; in glass Bob Crooks, Colin Reed, Tessa Clegg, Koichiro Yamamoto and Helen Maurer; in textiles Shelley Goldsmith...
...Howard Sims has hooked a new job. Sims was the man who built up Cavaghan & Gray, the fish-to-sausages group, eventually selling it to Northern Foods for £79m in 1998....
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