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...Meanwhile, one-year-old start up Inflection AI, founded by DeepMind’s co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn creator Reid Hoffman, is in talks to raise up to $675mn, having already raised $225mn last year...
...The 1988 film Rain Man featured a scene where Dustin Hoffman’s character insists on flying Qantas, which had earned a reputation as the world’s safest airline....
...Bruce and the E Street Band have been at the top of their game for half a century, and still play three-hour sets....
...‘‘We are resourcing and looking at how we can build direct to consumer relationships, i.e. with our own supporters around the world’’....
...The company announced last month it would buy the Casino Oceanus from the group’s main shareholder Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, paid for with HK$1.9bn (US$242mn) in new convertible bonds....
...Baya Simons From E£60 (about £2.50) a year for Egyptians, E£330 (about £13.80) for non-Egyptians; bibalex.org Boston Athenæum, Boston Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenæum holds half a million volumes...
...If William Lyons had not been so epically tight-fisted, James Bond’s car would have been an E-type. The producers tried to blag freebie Jaguars, but Lyons was disinclined to deal. So, 007 got a DB5....
...Hoffman says such ambiguity raises concerns....
...In early May 2016 the WSJ’s Liz Hoffman was speaking with an outside Cigna lawyer about another transaction....
...Gary Hoffman, a former chief executive of the company, had become chair in 2018 but stepped down in May....
...Charles Gore Brighton, E Sussex, UK...
...an “ecosystem” involving everything from e-commerce to doctor’s appointments....
...As these examples pile up, it will be hard for Amazon to keep gathering top tech talent, said Christy Hoffman, general secretary of international federation UNI Global Union....
...In 1998, he also became celebrated as “Mohsin e-Pakistan” (Saviour of Pakistan), after the country detonated six nuclear bombs at a test site....
...“We’re flipping the industry standard of 70 per cent male representation in galleries on its head,” says Hoffman....
...After all, the alphabet goes from A to Z not A to E!” This from a man who has made great play of not following rules to the letter. It can be hard to know what guidance to give....
...The pair joined forces with Lillian Browse to promote painters including Josef Herman, whose “Refugees” (c1941) is also among the works on show....
...The deal sees Sberbank expand its “ecosystem” as chief executive Herman Gref attempts to diversify its interests away from traditional banking services....
...The libretto that author E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier fashioned from Herman Melville’s novel is brilliantly many-layered....
...The bank is also funding a Yandex e-commerce site launching this week that Mr Gref envisions as a “Russian Amazon.”...
...The $1bn joint venture, which launched on Wednesday, is key to Sberbank chief executive Herman Gref’s plan to diversify the state-run bank by creating an “ecosystem” that provides everything from medical...
...Two runners-up will win: £500 each and e-publication with The Bodley Head A year’s digital subscription to FTWeekend, and a bag of books from The Bodley Head....
...That series by Hokusai (1760-1849), a ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist better known for his iconic prints of giant curling waves, was also called “manga”, translated as “pictures run riot”....
...The big Herman Munster shoulder shape he loves, for example, recalls the Georgian Santa Claus, who wears a cape with vast shoulders that makes him look monumental and not the least bit jolly....
...Matthew Herman, co-head of global M&A advisory at law firm Freshfields, said: “The staff at the SEC are very likely going to get hit with a wall of accumulated work the day they come back....
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