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...Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon, is the largest shareholder in IDS with a 27.5 per cent stake and has been a prolific dealmaker in the UK, buying stakes in supermarket chain J Sainsbury and London...
...Which Michael J Fox film of 1985 spawned a sequel in 1987, an animated TV series in 1986 and six seasons of an MTV drama between 2011 and 2017? What’s the last word of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”?...
...In TS Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, what three words follow “When the evening is spread out against the sky”? Click here for the answers...
...(or Victory over Japan) Day William Walton Xanadu Yangtze Zara Phillips...
...Which car rental company was advertised for many years by O J Simpson? In 2016, Betfair merged with which Irish betting company? What was officially united by Jean Moulin in 1943?...
...Alongside more established customers such as J Sainsbury, Sony Electronics and Frasers Group, Checkout has done business with the kinds of clients that other payments processors have not, including Pornhub...
...J. Christopher Flowers, the private equity investor known for reviving failed financial institutions, has warned that private capital’s push into insurance is coming with systemic risks....
...“We are going to be doing everything to maximise our share of that competitive space,” he said, while acknowledging that “we’ve got to be realistic — Pfizer is coming, and J&J and Moderna”....
...(That said, Richard J Evans, one of the world’s foremost historians of Germany, was a notably sharp critic)....
...Round on the Links The link was fictional baddies The Master Claudius Silver Villanelle Peter Hook The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) Henry Blofeld J R Hartley Ellen Ripley Penguin Classic...
...Anybody who has waited years, or even decades, to see Ivan the Terrible should wait no longer....
...What title is shared by a number two single by BA Robertson in 1979 and a number one single by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj in 2014?...
...What type of animal appears in the title of the first book by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for J K Rowling) — and the first film for which Jack Nicholson won an Oscar?...
...Ivan Macquisten, an art market analyst on the ArtAML advisory panel, says: “Some in the art market have taken this very seriously and have prepared well; others have taken the ostrich approach.”...
...But among those who have made a first stab at it, Ivan Krastev is characteristically thought-provoking with Is it Tomorrow Yet?....
...Which nickname for his home city was popularised by the US sports journalist John J Fitzgerald in the 1920s?...
...The god of small improvements was Sam Walton, late founder of Walmart, the US discount store chain, and Martin is his disciple....
...Russia’s release of journalist Ivan Golunov was a rare victory for its beleaguered press....
...Friday’s celebration was not without celebrity power altogether: Jamie Foxx hosted, dancing on stage with Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and Ellen DeGeneres sent a video of well...
...The moral core of this idea was expressed by Ivan Boesky in the sophistical “greed is healthy”....
...Ivan Glasenberg, the Glencore chief executive, on Tuesday sought to reassure investors that the Rosneft deal was still alive....
...The Waltons — the world’s richest family — still own about 51 per cent of shares, giving Walmart more flexibility than many other publicly traded companies to make long-term bets, analysts say....
...Walton was added to the book’s core “ghost” story late on in its composition. But he emphasises its theme of knowledge as a human virtue, or vice....
...On a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado he met Ann Walton, whose family owned a chain of retail stores called Walmart....
...All diplomacy might be brought back to [Izaak Walton’s] Compleat Angler’s parting admonition ‘Study to be quiet’.” Marian Ramsay Oxford, UK...
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