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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...Last week, BRB was on home turf with a double bill (Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined), pegged to its revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet....
...PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Neiman Marcus is the latest addition to a list of private-equity backed bankruptcies in retail, which includes Toys R Us, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource as well as J Crew....
...After a number of successful releases on streaming platforms in 2019 Dirty Blonde attended his first A&R meeting ever at record label 300 Entertainment. I swear they all come and go....
...So we ordinary people are seven times better off than our ancestors were as Woodrow Wilson et al negotiated the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. This is amazing....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The UK arm of Toys R Us reached a deal with its largest creditor this week, a move that should avoid it being plunged into administration at the cost of 3,200 jobs....
...But the cast includes Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and R&B star Mary J Blige, and Rees directs with authority — her future looks promising....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...) 7Moss, R., et al., 2010: The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment....
...and cities....
..., the arts, R&D and patents, and retraining our work force....
...In China, there is even a productivity boost, with Poncet et al. (2014) finding that minimum wage growth increases the productivity of surviving firms and allows more productive firms to replace the least...
...ghoulish trip to Ciudad Juárez, once known as the “city of death”....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...cities...
...R D Trading t/a RDC Racal Acoustics (I) Racelogic Racelogic (I) Rakon UK Ramsden International Rapiscan Systems (I) Steve Rawlings (E) Rayovac Micropower, division of Spectrum Brands (UK) Regatta...
...I chuckled at a still-life by John R J Taylor from the series Ideal Home (1990), of the control panel of a domestic oven, all steel and glass, inset into wood panelling with an arts-and-crafts repro door...
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...“Films are a great way to promote Dubai now,” Mr al-Shaikh said. “We should have been doing this years ago.” Dubai’s new-found infatuation with Hollywood is part of a wider trend....
...Brooklyn, N.Y.; Manhattan, N.Y.; Newark, N.J.; and Providence, R.I....
...Politics On The State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution, by Alaa Al Aswany, Canongate, RRP£9.99, 208 pages Al Aswany, an acclaimed novelist, is also a prolific journalist (and a dentist)....
...One of those, however, proved eerily prophetic: “Goldman Sachs has as much influence now that the old J. P. Morgan had between 1895 and 1930,” said Charles R....
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