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...John David Rainey, Walmart’s chief financial officer, pointed to the role discounts are playing, telling the Financial Times that sales during periods between promotions had been slower....
...“I believe it was that night that Elton [John] told him, after hearing that song, that he had to make a record.”...
...The minimalist soundscapes of Steve Reich meet the animation of John Adams in a sound-world that is very much Wolfe’s own, a brash New York in-your-face yelp of delight, well suited to the juggernaut of...
...He's also a senior adviser to Burson Cohn & Wolfe. Our own Camilla Cavendish, I'm sure you know, was head of David Cameron's policy unit. Now sits in the House of Lords as an independent crossbencher....
...They’ll also be keen to avoid one-to-one photographs with John Lee, the territory’s chief executive who is due to speak at the event....
...The main programme opened with more surround-sound in the form of John Luther Adams’s Qilyuan....
...At times it’s like reading Tom Wolfe given the fixation on objects and money....
...Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...Then Steve sent an email to the composer John Adams and said, ‘You should check out Anna’s music, she’s the real deal.’”...
...They include Jonny Greenwood, Nico Muhly, Stephen Sondheim and Julia Wolfe. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...“London’s appeal remains undimmed,” said Dan Wolfe, commercial director of Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that runs six UK palaces, including the Tower of London....
...The Great Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was a bond salesman and Sherman McCoy in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities traded them....
...Robertson could be short-tempered but his force of personality helped build a diverse group of investors including singer Paul Simon, writer Tom Wolfe and Blackstone founder Steve Schwarzman....
...There will be four themes: “Earth” will look at the climate crisis through premieres by Julia Wolfe and pioneering American nature composer John Luther Adams; “Spirit” will appeal to the spiritual in humanity...
...A list of 20 books you should read before you’re 30 contained no titles by women, but at least it contained Nick Hornby and Tom Wolfe. I felt embarrassed reading Loaded and FHM in a public place....
...Though I was not invited to George HW Bush’s funeral, or John McCain’s, I watched both on TV with one ear blocked....
...During a writing career that spanned more than 50 years, Didion penned magazine features, newspaper columns, novels and — sometimes in collaboration with her husband, John Gregory Dunne — Hollywood screenplays...
...On this question, Chief Justice John Roberts is as radical as his most conservative colleagues. My larger concern is that the court will become increasingly alienated from a majority of Americans....
...(Wolfe is leaving Sark in the next school year, once a new head is appointed.) The cost of living is another widely shared concern....
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...There’s no way they can put that on top of the aviation business,” said Nigel Coe, an analyst at Wolfe Research....
...My friend Euan is a British investment banker in Manhattan, and an unrepentant creature of the night — a character from Tom Wolfe, maybe, or Jay McInerney....
...The corporate bond market has long been dominated by the sort of old-fashioned trading and large egos that were once made famous by the writers Tom Wolfe and Michael Lewis....
...Tom Wolfe said that cars are “freedom, style, sex, power, motion, colour… everything”....
...Yes, John Updike had more talent, as Philip Roth is said to have granted. And if the rule in fiction is to show, not tell, even books as majestic as The Human Stain broke it wantonly....
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