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...Jessica Koslow doesn’t fit any homespun notions of how someone who makes jam should be....
...But its $16.7bn deal for Mead Johnson, the baby formula maker, last year raised doubts over whether it can afford a second large deal so soon after....
...The sale will free up Reckitt to focus on turning round newly acquired Mead Johnson, and reduce the cost of funding $18bn for the infant formula group....
...Ed Mead, director of estate agency Douglas and Gordon, said that “once property values get to £800 a square foot and upwards, it is worthwhile” to dig down, because the cost is exceeded by the value it adds...
...Sheffield , unable to maintain its Don Valley Stadium, bulldozed the facility built 24 years ago to host the 1991 World Student Games – the track where Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill trained....
...To “Son contenta di morire” (“I am happy to die”) from Handel’s Radamisto, Laura Mead emphatically crossed her wrists in the ballet sign for “To Death!”...
...… The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot, by Rebecca Mead, Granta, RRP£16.99/Crown, RRP$25 New Yorker writer Mead mixes biography, memoir and a close reading of George Eliot’s classic novel...
...Jessica Mitford’s jaunty piece of muckraking about its funeral industry, The American Way of Death (1963)....
...God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World By Walter Russell Mead Atlantic £25, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Walter Russell Mead adds religion to the mix of Anglo-Saxon virtues...
...Gary Mead, a VM analyst, said the impact of greater Chinese demand for gold jewellery and talk of China buying gold to help diversify its huge foreign exchange reserves had been overstated....
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