Hints and tips:
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...In Chapter 11, the idea is to come up with a settlement dollar figure that both the debtors and the creditors can agree on. And as you might guess, that can be easier said than done....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...The same issue features in several “mass tort” product liability bankruptcy cases involving the likes of 3M and Johnson & Johnson....
...“Only a putative debtor in financial distress can do so. LTL was not.”...
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...people trying to bring down Boris Johnson....
...When Joaquin Duato delivered his first annual results as chief executive and chair of Johnson & Johnson last month, he enthused about being “excited for the future” of the company, which is poised to spin...
...Johnson & Johnson, Trane Technologies and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain took the same path as Georgia Pacific and deployed the “Texas two-step”, which was devised by law firm Jones Day....
...Absolute rulers have never been the most reliable debtors. But Whittington was sharp enough to realise a loan need not be repaid in cash....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...A report by the auditor-general Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu says Ghana missed out on almost $3bn in revenues in 2021 due to what he described as “irregularities [representing] trade debtors, staff debtors and...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Bankruptcy judges have been willing to give the benefits of bankruptcy to “non-debtors” such as Johnson & Johnson and the Sacklers because those parties have been willing to fund billion dollar cash settlements...
...If claimants agree a settlement with the debtor over the tort claims, then the company, and in certain cases third parties, can gain protection from any future lawsuits related to injuries allegedly suffered...
...The EU was divided between debtor and creditor countries and then, with the “migrant crisis” of 2015, between Germany and almost everyone else....
...Johnson & Johnson used the contentious “Texas two-step” bankruptcy strategy to halt 38,000 personal injury cases claiming its talc-based baby powder caused cancer....
...Johnson did not deny he had told other ministers he was prepared to “privatise the arse off” underperforming public bodies....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
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