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...When Ken Frazier, another law school friend, was CEO of Merck and facing criticism for refusing to cut research budgets, Ogunlesi reassured him he was doing the right thing....
...Stopping the project in its tracks, by hook or crook, would be an even greater symbolic gesture for his successor....
...CSAM has also hired Imran Hameed as a director for the new group from Mercury Capital Advisors, a New York private equity firm....
...Airbnb also announced that Ken Chenault, chief executive of American Express, would be joining its board as the first independent director....
...After the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in 2012, Dick’s suspended sales of “modern sporting rifles” for a while, only to resume them later in 35 Field & Stream outlets....
...For its new management and lifestyle brands, Quartz has signed up new and existing sponsors, including Prudential and Lincoln, which will advertise on the Quartz at Work management site....
...This appeared to have the desired effect on new chairman Ken MacKenzie, who has only recently moved into the sector. BHP is not alone....
...“David and Ken built campaigns for different parties but have also come together to work on issues like marriage equality,” he said....
...Jim Farley was moved from the Emea division to run global operations and Lincoln, and to oversee electric and driverless cars....
...Leslie Hook’s analysis today of Apple’s investment highlights how, following the passage of new laws on internet content this year, Apple’s film and book services were blocked in April....
...Ken Goldman, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, said on Tuesday that “a number of private equity firms” had expressed interest but none had yet made a formal offer....
...When promos took off in the 1980s and MTV had hours to fill, it was “a very technical and secret way of film-making,” says Tom Bird, creative director at Mercury Records....
...What criticism he has is more measured, and is of the type that sees the Fed less as villain and more as enabler of the true scoundrels: the politicians who have made promises that taxpayers are on the hook...
...Ford officials say that last year’s decision to kill the 71 year-old Mercury nameplate, whose activities were usually grouped with Lincoln, has brought a sharper focus to Lincoln....
...“Commodity price increases have contributed a lot to the import strength,” says Ken Peng, China economist at Citi....
...So, as far as the SEC is concerned, Ken Lewis et al really are off the hook. What was not clear, immediately, was whether Attorney General Andrew Cuomo still feels differently....
...Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin; and David Price’s The Pixar Touch....
...Pepys, who “kissed the bookseller’s wife” while making his purchases and left the world’s largest collection of 17th-century broadsheets; the melancholic John Soane, walled up in his palace of the mind in Lincoln...
...Ken Wright, London Satyajit Das: Politicians and regulators globally are currently busy drafting laws to regulate derivatives....
...I bought Paul Ehrlich’s line [about a crisis of overpopulation] hook line and sinker. I was wrong about nuclear.” Again, he reaches for his military experience....
...SupportSoft has made Shelly Schaffer its executive vice-president and chief financial officer in place of Ken Owyang....
...three-year-old who snared a 40-pounder with a croquet mallet, the 35lb tiddler who attacked a calf and failed to disengage before being dragged from the water, and the Kenmure Pike, a much-debated Loch Ken...
...Everyone knows that Lincoln Center hosts two opera houses, the mighty Met and the brave City Opera. We tend to forget a third haven for the lyric muse: the academic Juilliard Opera Center....
...Meanwhile, Ebony magazine’s pre-Oscar party on Thursday night attracted leading African American stars such as Forest Whitaker and secured sponsorship from Lincoln Mercury cars, Anheuser-Busch, and the Bahamas...
...Microsoft Auto, the technology group’s automotive division, will provide the technology, based on its software called Sync, on a dozen 2008 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models making their debut this year....
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