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...Today’s top stories Chevron agreed to buy US oil and gas producer Hess Corporation in a $53bn all-stock deal....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...“The concept is comply or explain,” said Mr di Sibio, who argues this action will have a snowball effect.* Of course this begs another question: what happens to SASB, GRI et al?...
...And there is a reason the Philip Johnson interior has been landmarked too. It is a stunning example of mid-century modernism. A bit grandiose? Sure....
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...United Airlines suspended a flight from New Jersey’s Newark airport to the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which passes over Iran, citing safety concerns....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...(FT, Al Jazeera) In the news That’ll be £500,000 please Facebook has been hit with its first financial penalty over the massive data leak to Cambridge Analytica....
...All this has proved a bit of a puzzle to the moneybags, many of whom have dropped bundles on Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio et al, whose ample funding counted for nothing in the end....
..., snatched from the past by an unscrupulous corporation....
...One-fifth of British adults watch the BBC News channel each week but they could flick over to Sky News or, indeed, Al Jazeera or Fox News. Then there is BBC Four, which also costs £63m a year....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...the financial crisis....
...Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation is Failing Us and How to Restore Trust in It, by Colin Mayer, OUP, RRP£16.99, 320 pages Mayer’s proposed reform of the corporate sector in the wake of the financial...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Another recent arrival in the neighbourhood is Al Letson, a 37-year-old rap artist/flight attendant/poet who won a $200,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to develop a new radio programme...
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...Greed isn’t as good as we thought Back in the 1980s, the economist Al Rappaport captured the spirit of the times by devising a new goal for the corporation: the maximisation of shareholder value....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...At last month’s Maison et Objet fair in Paris the leading French manufacturer launched no less than six new projects with the designer, four re-editions and two new works, including Anda....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...Jackson, who was in the White House from 1829-1837, was a new brand of politician in American life....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s bureau chief in Delhi....
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