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...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...“The designers Hannah and James went for a walk around Dover and came up with the idea of something inspired by Victorian bathing tents,” he says....
...Musk Sr tells Isaacson he made roughly $210,000 from black-market sales of emeralds....
...Stewart died in 2014 and the house has been sold twice since, for C$15mn in 2016 and C$18mn in 2020....
...Walter Bettinger, Schwab’s 59-year-old chief executive, is the man who will make sure the logic turns into profits....
...Also included in the list is Charles Schwab chief executive Walter Bettinger, below, who executed one of the most cunning deals last year....
...His students included David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, as well as the Los Angeles artist Richard Wyatt....
...“My guess is he would support a White House effort to protect executive privilege,” said C. Boyden Gray, who as White House counsel for Bush Sr had worked closely with Mr Barr....
...“If you put diverse leaders into place in C-suite positions then these problems will self-correct,” says Ms Gordon....
...Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States , by James C Scott, Yale University Press, RRP£20/$26, 336 pages Walter Scheidel is author of ‘The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality...
...At one point the line-up included former US president George Bush Sr, his secretary of state James Baker, former British prime minister John Major and former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss...
...Stefanie Walter says that by and large Europeans support the EU’s negotiating strategy....
...(FT) James Keyte will leave Skadden Arps where he is a partner to join The Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm....
...Leonora Walters is the personal finance editor of the Investors Chronicle...
...Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, by James Kwak, Pantheon, RRP$25.95 A little economics, argues Kwak of the University of Connecticut, is a dangerous thing....
...A big week beckons at Nato headquarters in Brussels as the western allies await their first formal talks with James Mattis, the new US defence secretary....
...The company’s “scramjet-powered” SR-72 could come into service by the 2030s and has the potential to transform military and civilian aviation....
...The scientific rigour with which the author thinks through the logistics of the scenario is superb; it would do Arthur C Clarke proud....
...“Without Euro-clear we would all have gone broke”, said Walter Koller....
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner both came from working-class backgrounds to head a company whose progress has done much to define the first century of the information...
...Moscow has also declined to join a so-called contact group on Ukraine, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign minister, said on Friday....
..., Robert Solow, and Walter Heller, and, from the founding generation, to Paul Samuelson and Alvin Hansen....
...In 1950, Stagecoach producer Walter Wanger called Hollywood a “celluloid Athens”, transmitting American values to a world not even aware it was soaking them up....
...Celebrations of Burns and Sir Walter Scott were held across the empire....
...Huefner and James A....
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