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...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...The parts of this document that have garnered the most attention are the Schedule C plans to fire allegedly disloyal members of the federal civil service....
...The “increasing flurry” refers to aggregates maker CRH and plumbers’ merchant Ferguson....
...Letter in response to this article: Washington has lessons to learn on foreign policy / From Harlan Ullman, Senior Adviser, The Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, US...
...Café Letter in response to this article: Biggest threat posed by China may be implosion / From Harlan Ullman, Senior Adviser, The Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, US...
...Cineplex’s shares have been trading well below the C$34-a-share offer price since mid-March. Spurned Cineplex plans to sue for damages....
...at the ‘C-suite’....
...But come the market downturn, that credit — from triple A to triple C — risks exploding in their faces....
...The shares currently trade on a 2020E PE multiple of c.17 times and an EV:Sales multiple of c.0.92 times in the context of Group margins of c.7.6%....
...Michael C Hall of Dexter fame plays Tom, widowed father of two daughters, the eldest of whom, Jenny, is playing up in typical teenage fashion....
...There were a whopping 66 mentions of the C-word on the conference call. But Oracle also surprised investors with a decision to stop disclosing cloud revenues. “There is no hiding,” Ms Catz insisted....
...Dr Harlan Ullman Senior Advisor, Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, US Senior Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander European Command 2004-16...
...Nintendo shares are dropping like an Italian plumber down a drainpipe ahead of a press conference in Japan that should reveal further details about its upcoming console, the Switch....
...And progressives rarely noticed WWC people except to laugh at them: “We call them hillbillies with plumber’s butt, living in flyover states.”...
...He resigned from Kadmon this year to comply with an order that bars him from serving as a director or executive of a public group, and handed the top job to his brother, Harlan....
...But part of his empire was built on the backs of hundreds of people – carpenters, plumbers, dishwashers, painters and small business owners – who say he never paid them for their work, ultimately bankrupting...
...Sir, In Lucy Kellaway’s experience, plumbers, being practical chaps, don’t tell stories (“Stories are best for the Bible and in novels, not the C-suite”, December 7)....
...Sir, Lucy Kellaway claims to have found two occupations that are strangers to storytelling, namely plumbers and dentists (“Stories are best for the Bible and in novels, not the C-suite”, December 7)....
...Sir, For once, Lucy Kellaway is dead wrong (“Stories are best for the Bible and in novels, not the C-suite”, December 7). Plumbers are some of the best storytellers around....
...They have no place in the C-suite. There is an inverse relationship between how often companies talk about storytelling and their ability to use words nicely....
...Photography (c) 2014 by Michael Harlan Turkell ——————————————- Who are you calling a jerk?...
...Aggregates maker CRH edged up 0.1 per cent to £13.95 and Wolseley , the plumber’s merchant, took on 2.2 per cent to £31.94....
...The trader, Harlan Sender, was suspended by Quad after the order to buy Apple shares on October 25 came under investigation....
...Wolseley dropped 6.3 per cent to £31.45 after a trading update from the plumbers’ merchant raised doubts over whether it would pay a special dividend this year....
...Headline via the Harlan Ellison short story....
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