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...Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farmers’ Union, said water shortages for growers were cutting into yields, in some cases stunting vegetables below the size that supermarkets will accept....
...Jerry Brown, the US state’s governor, has warned the situation reflected a “new abnormal” for California state as hotter temperatures and drier conditions combine to make wildfires a near-constant threat...
...On Monday he added: “Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean....
...The tie-up with the US satellite radio broadcaster will promote material from the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari and Sarah Silverman, who have all produced stand-up comedy shows for Netflix...
...“We knew we had a tiger of an idea . . . but very few of the investors we pitched to believed in it,” says Jerry Roest, who served as Shazam’s chief executive from 2002 to 2005....
...After facing lawsuits from their families, co-founder Jerry Yang was forced to apologise at a US congressional hearing in 2007. “It’s not a new direction....
...The producer of Marmite spread, Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has one management team but two parent companies, with headquarters in both Rotterdam and London and two separately-listed entities:...
...Critics of the Obama administration move to rescind the ban, including Jerry Boykin, a retired general who is vice-president of the conservative Family Research Council, argue that some of those studies...
...Hampton Creek counts Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com among its backers....
....” ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: NCAA fat cats with no skills worth paying to see / From Jerry Nims...
...Its existing backers include Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft; Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire; and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang....
...Tom In the first few Tom and Jerry cartoons (the original MGM short films ran from 1940 to 1957), Tom was a shaggy animal that walked on all fours like a real cat....
...Even successful management theories, such as those espoused by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in In Search of Excellence or by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Built to Last, tarnish with time, as the companies...
...Andrew Stalbow, Rovio’s executive vice president for strategic partnerships, told the FT that Angry Birds Toons were “inspired by Tom and Jerry” and would be “Looney Tunes for the mobile generation… fun...
...Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder who left the company in January, invested $1bn in Alibaba in 2005 for a 40 per cent stake in the Chinese ecommerce firm....
...Jack Ma, Alibaba’s chairman and chief executive, said the deal “begins a new chapter” in the relationship between the two groups, which began when Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder, invested $1bn seven years...
...The scandal prompted the resignations of chairman Marcus Agius, chief executive Bob Diamond and chief operating officer Jerry del Missier....
...He is the last of the so-called three musketeers to leave the bank, after Mr Diamond and his number two Jerry del Missier resigned last summer in the wake of the Libor rate manipulation scandal....
...“All our networks are performing well,” said Jerry Buhlmann, Aegis chief, with strength in China and Russia offsetting a weak southern Europe. “It’s still very much a two-speed world.”...
...Facebook featured an executive from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in its roadshow video, who said for every $1 the company invested in Facebook, it generated $3 in sales....
...Jerry Buhlmann, Aegis chief executive, said print media continued to thrive in less-developed media markets such as India and China....
...“After the great recent success of winning the $3bn global media account for General Motors, this acquisition builds on the strong momentum we have in the business, both in the US and globally,” said Jerry...
...Jerry Buhlmann, Aegis’s chief executive, said: “It’s a huge boost for our business and we’ll be focused on making sure it’s a huge boost to their business....
...A bullish Jerry Buhlmann, chief executive of Aegis, says the slimmed-down marketing services group can still punch above its weight after selling its market research arm....
...“We see continuing momentum in our business in the first nine months [of 2011], in which we delivered market-leading organic growth,” said Jerry Buhlmann, Aegis chief executive....
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