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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...But the other half came through acquisitions, including investments in healthier snacks such as Kind bars and 2017’s $9.1bn purchase of a veterinary services business called VCA....
...His new album, Surrounded By Time, is his fourth in the past decade to be produced by Ethan Johns, the latest in a run of grave, serious records since 2010’s Praise & Blame that have separated him from his...
...Amid all this, Bob Woodward’s latest book, Peril, has landed with a thump....
...US stocks stumbled on the diagnosis, with Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index closing down nearly 1 per cent....
...At 66, Washington is at the top of his game, having received eight Oscar nominations, winning two — Best Supporting Actor for 1989’s Glory and Best Actor for 2001’s Training Day....
...Comprising four historic townhouses on Valletta’s St Barbara Bastion, it’s a five-minute walk from St John’s Co-Cathedral, famed for its Caravaggios....
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
...Deutsche Bank climbed after its supervisory board ousted chief executive John Cryan and named John Sewing, co-deputy CEO, as his replacement with immediate effect....
...A retail bubble Today was the day Urban Outfitters left the S&P 500....
...His father John Sr — the once “indestructible”, fun-loving “Keith Richards of law” in the eyes of his son — died in February at age 81. The loss has left him pensive....
...Other candidates tipped for the role include Jonathan Allan, C4’s head of advertising, Rob Woodward, outgoing chief executive of Scottish commercial broadcaster STV, and Alex Mahon, the former chief executive...
...“The truth is C4’s market share has been falling every year for the last four years,” said John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary, at the height of the debate over whether the publicly owned broadcaster...
...Here John Frieda’s creative colour director Nicola Clarke says: “For us the biggest game-changer in colour is Olaplex....
...Ben had the courage of an army, Woodward readily agreed....
...The release also gives some insight into his reading habits – he had a taste for books by Noam Chomsky and Bob Woodward, and 9/11 conspiracy theories that questioned his role in the 2001 attacks....
...“It’s a giant PLC,” says Sue Woodward, CEO of The Sharp Project....
...After all, not since John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams in the early 19th century has America had a family with two successive generations of presidents in its gene pool....
...Suzi Feay A round-up of 2010’s best nonfiction...
...Dave Applegate, Sr....
...The Man Who Would be President (1992), for example, is devoted to the ambitions of George Bush Sr’s vice-president J Danforth Quayle....
...The Iraqi government finds his withdrawal symptoms perfectly coincident with its own and not with those of the Bush administration or John McCain....
...W is Stone’s third biopic of a president after JFK, nominated for Oscars in 1991, and 1995’s Nixon....
...“Home Office minister John Denham has been criticised by the police for using the phrase ‘nitty gritty’ because of race relations rules....
...“History loves blood,” wrote John Updike in Memories of the Ford Administration. “It loves the great blood-spillers.”...
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