Hints and tips:
...I’ll take the scenic cycle route to St Ives, which loops around the countryside, or walk around Hemingford Meadows and Houghton Mill, in the beautiful Ouse Valley....
...Emily Blunt stars as plucky scientist Lily Houghton (there’s a wry running gag about people being perpetually shocked to see a woman in trousers that somehow gets funnier through excessive repetition)....
...Welch’s managerial approach, including ruthless pruning of underperformers, earned him the nickname he hated, “Neutron Jack”....
...I was afraid to be called ‘Jack of all trades and master of none’. I thought of myself as a group show.” That is what his oeuvre, facilitated by teams of assistants, does now resemble....
...ACCOLADE • Hardys• St Hallett• Grant Burge• Petaluma• Knappstein• Stonier• Tatachilla• Houghton• Banrock Station Pick of the lot Houghton, Jack MannCabernet Sauvignon 2015Frankland River (2014 is£73.99...
...The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27/Profile, RRP£12.99 Desai sets off on an entertaining quest to humanise high...
...Mindful Work by David Gelles, Profile Books; Eamon Dolan Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt £12.99 ($27) Is the practice of mindfulness and meditation ultimately compatible with the cut-throat ethos of capitalism...
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...Jack Griffin lasted less than six months at Time Inc, Time Warner’s magazine arm, after a clash of styles....
...Board members included Lee Raymond, then CEO of ExxonMobil; Jamie Houghton, chairman emeritus of Corning Incorporated; Hanna Gray, former president of the University of Chicago; Paul Allaire, then chairman...
...Rattner is constantly on the phone to Jack Welch, General Electric’s retired sage, for advice on the wretched state of the company’s executives....
...Houghton & Washington East and Sunderland North and Sunderland South are safe Labour territory....
...23.31 - Fraser Kemp holds Houghton & Washington East for Labour. Another safe seat. Turnout 52 per cent....
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