Hints and tips:
...— striker2014 The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Harcourt Publishers, £15.47 I would suggest reading Hannah Arendt’s book which deals with the difference between “solitude” and “loneliness”....
...Liners were prominent symbols of power and prestige, with P&O’s steamers zigzagging across the British empire like “flagships of imperialism”, as the historian Freda Harcourt put it....
...Shares of the textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, rose as much as 33 per cent on their initial public offering price, valuing the company at about $2.23...
...SPDC has a 30 per cent share, Total E&P Nigeria has 10 per cent and Nigeria Agip Oil Company holds the remaining 5 per cent....
...nationals entering Britain do not have an automatic entitlement to welfare and benefits. http://on.ft.com/11tDvo2 Nigerian dealmakers open up oilfields Behind the high walls of their compounds in Port Harcourt...
...Other standalone education businesses, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Cengage Learning, are struggling as textbook sales fall in the face of diminished state spending on education and the rise of...
...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hired Linda Zecher from Microsoft last year and McGraw-Hill this year picked Buzz Waterhouse, an IBM veteran, to run the education business it is now selling....
...Amplify is likely to compete with Apple, which launched an interactive textbook store this year, and digital initiatives from established educational publishers including McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
...Linda Zecher, who started as chief executive of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September 2011, previously worked at the technology companies Microsoft, Texas Instruments and Oracle....
...Apple’s latest effort to persuade content companies that it is an ally featured large publishers, including Pearson, which owns the Financial Times, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as well as...
...US education suppliers such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have been affected by lower state budgets for school materials and lower college enrolments....
...She e-mailed him at 5:37 p.m. with a draft of what the Fed would tell the world the next morning at 8 a.m....
...“A solid fourth quarter finish by S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts and a market-beating performance in US higher education enabled us to overcome volatile global credit markets and historically-low funding...
...Mr McGraw noted that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a rival education group, appointed a new chief executive with a technology background from Microsoft this month....
...Like the novels of P.G. Wodehouse, who co-wrote the original Anything Goes book, the show demands that we overlook the paltriness of plot for the rewards of wit....
...The company is widely seen as a potential bidder for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt or Cengage should either company come on the market following their private equity buyouts before the financial crisis....
...The acquisition puts News Corp in competition with established education companies including Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt....
...Istithmar owns Education Media and Publishing Group, which includes US book publishers Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep and Harcourt Education....
...The largest US school publishers, which include McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, which owns the Financial Times, were reluctant to get embroiled in the political debate, referring questions...
...The negotiations come after EMPG and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, its main operating unit, clashed with rating agencies over the outlook on its debt....
...Mr McGraw’s comments came after Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the second largest educational publisher, challenged a Moody’s warning of a possible default unless its loan covenants were amended....
...The shares closed up 32½p at 576½p....
...But Port Harcourt has long been a critical stop on the career path of anyone wanting to make it to the top of the company’s vast exploration and production business, or E&P for short....
...The sale of Harcourt’s textbooks had already raised the online share of revenues from about 37 per cent to 47 per cent....
...“Renewed violence around Nigeria’s main oil city of Port Harcourt provided prices with the necessary impetus to break through key resistance levels,” Mr Horsnell says....
International Edition