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...In the (in)famous 1999 IPO of Internet Capital Group, for example, the f&f accounted for 30 per cent of the deal; the shares rocketed for a while before crashing and burning....
...Founded as a franchise in the 1930s, the team was purchased for $4.5mn by the grandson of Henry Ford in 1963 (coincidentally, on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated)....
...I’m at the tail-end of a first wave of Asian-American playwrights who didn’t have a clear group of mentors,” he says, citing David Henry Hwang and Julia Cho as contemporaries....
...At the FT’s Mining Summit this month, BHP chief executive Mike Henry boasted that the world’s biggest mining group had a “really ambitious” plan to reduce its enormous carbon footprint....
...Letter in response to this article: A publisher that counted ‘Bambi’ as a bestseller / From Henry Wessells, Upper Montclair, NJ, US...
...“Henry, you gotta show your face! How dare you, Henry? I’ve never been double-crossed so early in an interview!” On TV, Ben Schwartz is all energy — big hair, swinging limbs, quick answers....
...Started in 1818 by Henry Sands Brooks, Brooks Brothers is now privately held by the Italian businessman Claudio Del Vecchio, whose father founded the Luxottica eyewear group....
...Bill Ford, executive chairman and the great-grandson of founder Henry Ford, said the car would appeal to “a new generation of Mustang owners”....
..., majority leader of the Senate, Washington, DC, March 2 1976; Nelson Rockefeller, US vice-president, New York, June 28 1976; Emanuel Celler, former US congressman (New York), New York, August 12 1976; F...
...Just consider how F Ross Johnson ended up losing control of RJR Nabisco, the cigarettes to cookies conglomerate, in the late 1980s....
...Yet, despite the success of its current way of doing things, the mainstream US auto industry is preparing for a future that Henry Ford could scarcely have imagined....
...Elon Musk is the Robert F Kennedy of transportation. The liberal icon once described his credo thus: “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why?...
...Reporting by Max Seddon and Henry Foy in Moscow, Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco, Roman Olearchyk in Kiev, Daniel Thomas, Mark Odell and David Bond in London...
Banks’ heirs apparent have a funny way of falling out of favour, writes Gary Silverman
...[c.f. investing.]...
...But, under the paint on Ford’s new F-150, the body was made of aluminium — a metal that had never before been used on a vehicle produced in such high volumes....
...Ford’s F-150 truck uses 100 new patents – more than any truck in Ford’s history. Patent wars struck smartphones as that industry became commoditised....
...The R&D push will be visible in launches of new vehicles such as Ford’s next-generation F-150 pick-up truck, boasting an ultra-lightweight aluminium body, more efficient engine, and radars, cameras and...
...Now many see Ford’s new version of its F-150 pick-up truck, which is expected to rely heavily on aluminium for its body panels when released next year, as the metal’s big breakthrough....
...Henry David Thoreau did not go to Walden Pond for better 4G. Fitness gadgets are only a small part of the wearable tech trend....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Goodman has gone on to appear as Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and, of course, Falstaff in Henry IV parts I and II, among many other canonical roles....
...“2013 will still have huge regional and local differences,” said Henry Pryor, a property buying agent....
...F. Scott Fitzgerald found the cost of tending to his batty wife meant his literary returns were reserved for MGM studios rather than book publishers....
...Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, the IT security company, says: “In advanced persistent threats, an email might be sent to just one company....
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