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...We hear from Bessemer Venture Partners’ investor David Cowan, and FT artificial intelligence editor Madhumita Murgia talks to long-time quantum computing researcher Sankar Das Sarma....
...David Cowan(Notification sound) Yes. Hello. John Thornhill Hi, David. It’s John Thornhill here. David CowanHi John. John ThornhillThank you so much for doing this interview....
...Job moves Goldman Sachs’ chief of staff John Rogers, one of the bank’s most influential executives, is stepping back from his role....
...By contrast, “today images are so close to us . . . that their power of revelation is diminishing,” argue curator Matthieu Humery and consultant Andrew Cowan in the catalogue....
...In 1989, he premiered The Protecting Veil, a work for cello and orchestra that was written for him by John Tavener, at the BBC Proms to a rapturous reception....
...As Leitch guides the boat towards the precarious remains of an old harbour, the hotel’s general manager John Orr comes to collect my bags....
...Twiggy really wasn’t Coming Out — nor was Jean “The Shrimp” Shrimpton, or Grace Coddington, Celia Hammond or Sue Murray, especially not when shot by photographers such as John Cowan, Tony Armstrong-Jones...
...“The driving force was austerity,” said John Williams, Conservative leader of Taunton Deane district council, which will merge with neighbouring West Somerset next year....
...“Richard was a valued member of the Tesco board and was appreciated for his business acumen and straight talking,” said John Allan, chairman of the British supermarket group....
...‘Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme’, FIT New York, Sept 15-Jan 6, fitnyc.edu/museum Photographs: Dan Tobin Smith; Catwalking.com; The John Cowan Archive; Anders Beer Wilse...
...In a note this month, David Cowan, Africa economist at Citi, said the consensus was “a fair assessment”....
...It would be a brave playwright today who wrote “A Masque in Honour of Chastity”, but such is the design of this rarely seen curiosity by the poet John Milton....
...David Cowan, Citi’s chief Africa economist, believes the reality is worse and questions an IMF prediction that foreign direct investment will be $4.45bn in 2016-17, nearly $1bn more than its previous estimate...
...One final point — look at John Dizard’s essay on infrastructure financing....
...Mr Cowan, however, has urged investors to be careful when assessing governance....
...John Ashbourne: There is not, as yet, any evidence of the weaker currency helping exports....
...After growing up in London, he moved to Scotland to study with the “uncompromising” and “mercurial” Jane Cowan (as he describes her), before struggling to establish himself through his twenties....
...Corfield’s career included turning round Parkinson Cowan, a maker of gas appliances, before four years spent in Brussels at the European headquarters of ITT, STC’s owner....
...But for John Strand, these attacks have been great for business....
...“Some of the most deprived areas in the northwest are on our boundaries,” says Andrew Cowan, chief strategy officer of Manchester Airport Group....
...“Forty per cent of the cost of our imports and exports is down to transport, so we stand to benefit more than any other country in our region,” says John Rwangombwa, governor of Rwanda’s central bank....
...Certainly it should be a wake-up call for all those pensions experts who misinterpret the judgment in the famous Cowan v Scargill case to mean trustees’ obligation to beneficiaries should be interpreted...
...Earls Court Exhibition Centre has long been renowned for crowd-pleasing extravaganzas by the likes of Elton John, Pink Floyd, Queen and the Spice Girls....
...all these measures, the number of social rented homes in Britain fell by almost 35,000 on a net basis in 2012-13 – the first time in a decade that the country had a net loss of social homes, according to John...
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