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...Clever lighting by Natasha Katz guides the eye round the vast O of the Royal Albert Hall and helps make sense of the busy libretto which can sometimes sabotage the big moments....
...It will be one of a number [of ETFs] that we will bring to market,” said Neil Slater, global head of real assets at Abrdn....
...Shouting and raging was not Escoffier’s style, according to his biographer Kenneth James....
...“I have to tell you I am not a Neil Diamond fan,” confesses Joyce Kulhawik, president of the Boston Theater Critics Association. “The press night was six o’clock on a Sunday evening....
...Since Charles Berry, who stepped down as chair in March 2020, was replaced by Scott Wheway, several non-executive directors have left the board....
...It was a homage to our Obama O’s breakfast cereal of 2008, which we sold to keep Airbnb afloat at that time....
...Middlesbrough; Heather Morrey, Sussex Polymath 1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’...
...“The old politics are returning [in Latin America],” says Shannon K O’Neil, vice-president at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York....
...“When they set this into motion, Nike had the desire to gain more control over their own distribution,” says Neil Schwartz, president of sports retail data analytics firm SBRnet....
...Charles River Associates, London Oliver Latham Charles River Associates, London Laurent Flochel Charles River Associates, Paris Pierre Régibeau Charles River Associates, London Raphaël De Coninck...
...Charles Hepworth, investment director at GAM, sees no need to change his three-year-old view of sterling: “avoid”. He notes the pound “behaves like an emerging market currency”....
...O’Toole, Edinburgh, UK; Parv, Mumbai, India; Corrinna Patterson, Edinburgh, UK; Joel Wittgren, Copenhagen, Denmark....
...Andrew Hill, management editor Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay (1841) I bought Mackay’s classic account of speculations, bubbles and mass neuroses in Manhattan...
...Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s “pay tsar”, was called to intervene....
...“This is an issue they’ve been scaremongering about since Justice O’Connor was nominated . . ....
...The fact that Mr Kavanaugh was chief author of the Kenneth Starr report into Bill Clinton’s misconduct will give Democrats ammunition for the Senate hearings....
...Republican senator Charles Grassley has said of Mr Kavanaugh: “He has a reputation for keeping regulators under control.”...
...(Guardian) The day ahead New UK bank note A new £10 note enters circulation in the UK, complete with an image of Jane Austen (who replaces Charles Darwin)....
...by Neil Gower...
...Neil Blake, head of global forecasting, CBRE Modest but weak GDP growth will mean that it will not exactly be a resurgence....
...Lucy O’Carroll, chief economist, Aberdeen Standard Investments Not much of a pay rise, given how low unemployment is....
...Neil Blake, head of global forecasting, CBRE Once, if at all....
...Charles Dumas, chief economist, TS Lombard Yes, but the 2017 real-income squeeze was partly offset by lower savings that should be restored in 2018....
...Charles Dumas, Chief Economist, TS Lombard About 1.5 per cent, vs. US and EA both 2-2.5 per cent....
...Neil Blake, head of global forecasting, CBRE Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
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