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...Other earnings: Biogen, General Electric, Kimberly-Clark, LVMH, Raytheon, Snap Spotify, Unilever and Visa are among those also reporting today. See the full list in our Week Ahead newsletter....
...as a witch, and the wartime love letters of Martha Gellhorn — Atwood and her publishers have assembled a talented and extensive group of voice-artists, including Stevens, Linda Lavin, Bahni Turpin and Kimberly...
...Last week, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice-prime minister, had tweeted a letter to Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, asking him to “stop supplying Apple services and products” to Russia, in order to rally...
...According to the American Civil Liberties Union, black people in Cook County, Illinois, where Chicago is located, were 10 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people before...
...In the US, Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark have announced “mid to high single-digit” price increases starting later in the year, covering essentials such as nappies and toilet paper....
...The trend for consumers to stay inside is leading them to wash and cook at home more often than usual....
...Mike Hsu, newly installed chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, told investors last week that the company was planning “more meaningful” innovation....
...Meet the neighbours North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with South Korea’s national security director Chung Eui-yong during peace talks in Pyongyang Leading ladies Silver medallist Jamaica’s Kimberly...
...Rival Kimberly-Clark announced it was laying off 5,000 employees as it revealed declining prices for products such as nappies....
...Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, has also suffered....
...Big companies from diaper maker Kimberly-Clark to PepsiCo have all been contending with weak North America sales during the first quarter....
...Hence the rise of Master Chef and celebrity cooks?...
...Ian Cook, Colgate chief executive, said he had “no buyer’s remorse” about last year’s €672m acquisition of Sanex from Unilever, which increased Colgate’s exposure to Europe....
...More than half of the Japanese people surveyed, whose small flats make it difficult to cook, are buying fewer take-away meals....
...On the other hand, with no heat, nothing cooks....
...Ian Cook, chief executive of Colgate Palmolive, told investors that “so far we are seeing no indication of the slowdown,” in the US....
...His journey from kitchen klutz to competent line-cook is told with a modesty lacking in most of the above books. “I didn’t want to be a chef: just a cook,” he concedes....
...“I didn’t agree with Robin Cook [the late former foreign secretary and leader of the Commons] about much, but I did on this - that we needed a game plan for after the invasion....
...Well, there are still the same old prejudices about women chasing younger men (or any men, or many men), as the recent furore surrounding Mrs Kimberly Quinn, 44, reminds us....
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