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...The other judges of this year’s award were Mimi Alemayehou, founder and managing partner, Semai Ventures; Daisuke Arakawa, Nikkei’s managing director for global business; Mitchell Baker, chief executive...
...Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, by Siddharth Kara, investigates the human rights abuses that taint the mining of the essential raw material cobalt, a quest that took him deep into...
...A third archetype, of the hypersexual Jezebel, is embodied by Josephine Baker in jazz-age Paris....
...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...He’s an absolutely masterful guitar player from Fort Worth, Texas, with a beautiful voice that combines elements of folk and jazz – kind of like Chet Baker....
...After my calls, I’ll put in earbuds and listen to Sapiens – an audiobook history of humankind – or maybe Kara Swisher’s Pivot podcast, and walk to Makena Landing to watch the turtles; or to Chang’s Beach...
...Morgan Stanley and Centerview advised on GE’s $32bn deal with oil and gas group Baker Hughes....
...Kara Chan resembled two stars aspiring to be a constellation against the indifferent vastness of the sky....
...Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, and presidents of several of its universities and business organisations, have publicly supported the lawsuit....
...Ed Baker, a vice-president who drove much of Uber’s growth in the past three years, resigned on Friday. Additional reporting by Kara Scannell....
...Here are chefs and bakers and waiters, food trucks and the Fire Department....
...“It was achieved thanks to our friends and partners from ExxonMobil, Nord Atlantic Drilling, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Weatherford, Baker, Trendsetter, FMC,” he said....
...Exxon has wound down its participation in the Kara Sea project, and will not be able to return until US sanctions are lifted. And it is not alone....
...But if Barack Obama decides to move ahead, the Russian activities of Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and Halliburton, – US oil services providers that are actively supporting the Bazhenov exploration effort –...
...But as all the leading oil services groups such as Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes are either US-based or have large US operations, Washington could have leverage over their decisions....
...“There is little sign of rebalancing,” said Amit Kara, an economist at UBS....
...Amit Kara, UBS: UK risk premia will jump higher. This will be reflected in higher bond yields, a weaker currency and falling equity prices. Investment spending and consumption will suffer....
...Amit Kara, UBS: Hopefully that productivity has improved and that the puzzle is behind us....
...Amit Kara, UBS: Rapid house price inflation in a market where supply is low reflects market failure. Policy should intervene to address that failure and that primarily requires a supply response....
...Amit Kara, UBS: I am a sceptic of the forward guidance framework. The BoE will almost certainly have to revisit its policy guidance if the unemployment rate maintains its current trajectory....
...Amit Kara, UBS: Economic growth will likely moderate, but we see healthy economic growth next year as well....
...Melanie Baker, Morgan Stanley: Fiscal policy is dragging on growth, though that doesn’t mean it was necessarily the wrong thing to do. The pace of austerity looks set to step up again in 2015....
...“Argentina is swimming against the current,” says Amy Myers Jaffe, senior energy adviser at Rice University’s Baker Institute....
...Ms Ambrosino is also highly critical of the “hundreds of millions” of dollars paid in fees to Mr Picard’s law firm, Baker Hostetler, while victims of the fraud are still waiting for their money....
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