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...“China is not developing its nuclear forces for some bolt out of the blue attack on America,” says Caitlin Talmadge, a nuclear expert at Georgetown University....
...Painterly gauzes and frontcloths whisk us from one scene to the next and stormy seas are whipped up with a wind machine and a bolt of blue parachute silk: a triumph of old-school stagecraft....
...Staley and Jeffrey Epstein. As has been widely reported, earlier in his career Mr. Staley developed a professional relationship with Mr. Epstein....
...Drinker Biddle has hired Jeffrey Jacobson, a former chief counsel to the New Jersey attorney-general, as a partner....
...But Mr Immelt also chose to build up some divisions: paying $9.5bn for the UK’s Amersham in 2004 to develop the healthcare business, spending $10bn on the energy operations of Alstom in 2015, and making bolt-on...
...Mr Narasimhan said Novartis would continue its strategy of “bolt-on” acquisitions, especially of innovative medicines companies....
...Rather than pursuing large deals, Mr Schwan has opted in recent years for smaller bolt-on acquisitions, “where we want to complement existing product franchises or technologies” he says....
...But even if not, the risks to AT&T from this “bolt-on” acquisition, as Mr Stephenson put it, are muted. Shares in the acquiring business dipped 2 per cent on Monday....
...The company also said that over 2015-18 it expected to have $30bn of cash available and not yet allocated, including $20bn of additional borrowing, which could be used for bolt-on acquisitions or returned...
...Mr Divan’s prescription for Pfizer — organic growth and bolt-on deals — would bring it back into line with the strategies of most other big pharma groups....
...Jeffrey Holford, analyst at Jefferies, said that, while the results were solid, 2015 guidance was “light” because of currency headwinds....
...“We think this deal signals a firm intent to separate in 2017,” said Jeffrey Holford, an analyst at Jefferies....
...We had to keep stopping so this young man, Jeffrey or Jeremy, could open the gates and close them behind us. He was very nice, and energetic....
...Arnaud Montebourg, the economy and industry minister, wrote to GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt saying the government could not accept the deal in its present form, which involves the takeover of Alstom...
...Most people would say that a good tax is one paid by those richer than themselves, so calls by members of the global wealthy elite to pay more tax have come as a bolt from the blue....
...When Jeffrey Kindler became chief executive of Pfizer in 2006, he could still lay claim to running the world’s premier medicines group....
...Richard Jeffrey, Cazenove: I believe we need to have a rethink with regard to supply-side policy....
...Mr Immelt insists that the shine on GE’s nuts-and-bolts businesses never faded and the company will prove the sceptics wrong. “We will work through the cycle,” he told the Financial Times....
...Disney has six 3-D films out in the next 14 months: the first, Bolt, an animated movie, comes out in November....
...“There is a tremendous opportunity right now,” says Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive....
...It chafes under the control of Paramount and may bolt to Universal. Talent-spotting and production will always be hit and miss affairs, like early-stage drug discovery....
...But, challenging the consensus view, Menzie Chinn and Jeffrey Frankel of the US’s National Bureau of Economic Research argued in a research paper last year that, if the dollar’s decline continued, the euro...
...Larry Hatheway and Jeffrey Palma of UBS make this point forcefully in a recent note....
...Grouper, Bolt and MySpace, owned by News Corp, insist that they meet those conditions....
...Mike took a keen interest in the nuts and bolts of running the resort. When we stopped at a small mountain restaurant, for example, the manager mentioned that the roof was leaking....
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