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...Joseph Obeng, president of the Ghana Union of Traders Association, a trade body, calls them “obnoxious”, adding that they will further increase the cost of doing business....
...“The Russians have been doing this for the past year: bidding each other up for the big trophy homes.”...
...Hodge, a specialist lender, gave 16-17 working days as the time taken for “fully packaged applications”....
...“There is no line of business that needs difference of perspective more than ours does,” she says. “There’s never one perfect way of doing something. We need more women. We need more ethnic minorities....
...Scholar has been replaced by a Treasury veteran, James Bowler, as the finance ministry’s permanent secretary....
...This is not a normal business cycle downturn. As such, the normal dynamics do not apply....
...Cary Gahm and his business partner, who started a temp service for dental hygienists, worry that the local coding talent is weak and immigration rules prevent them from hiring the Eastern Europeans they...
...“They are making big rate changes to make sure they’re not at the top of the tree”....
...The men are not doing their jobs very well.”...
...Big business will do what it can to hold on to your money, relying on the many who will take “no” as a final answer....
...The magic money tree has set down deep roots....
...When we started doing this, the “Markets not live” branding was just a handy way to harvest searches for the legacy service. It now feels more like a portent....
...“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” wrote James Madison, one of the key founding fathers. The court quickly turned into the lofty arbiter of what was permissible under the constitution....
...well as action on agriculture and a major expansion of tree planting....
...(NYT) Doing justice Preet Bharara sits down with Dave Chang to talk about his tenure as the US attorney for the southern district of New York and being recognised as one of the most successful prosecutors...
...GIP paid £1.5bn in 2009 and has received as much in dividends since, so it’s a healthy return. The deal was eventually signed at 6am on the first business day after Christmas....
...The terrasse is the location for three things that are quintessentially Parisian: bad coffee, poor service and good conversation....
...At Acorn Saddlery, just down the road, founder Frank Edwards and his son James tell the same story....
...He portrayed Arcanum as “some sort of super service that has super resources at their disposal”, Ablyazov remembers....
...Doing business in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is gradually getting easier thanks to the elimination of tariff barriers, expansion of supply chains and gradual harmonisation of customs...
...It teaches business skills as well as performance and technology....
...Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford in The Rise of the Robots, the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as...
...In a report published on Thursday, the public accounts committee blamed a lack of civil service oversight, as well as poor performance by the companies for a contracting process that has so far achieved...
...Back in San Francisco, Julia Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite, an online ticketing service for events, echoes that. “The culture in your company will carry some of your DNA as founders....
...of postwar Britain by examining the relatively shortlived experiment with military service....
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