Hints and tips:
...I sit down in the morning, and I do it.” It taught him concision (when he felt like practising it): “You have to try to make a very big statement in very few words or very few images.”...
...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...The drive of, like, I may be a f**k-up, but I know I’m good at this one thing.” Pierce, too, felt good at one thing — acting....
...Last week the company said it would begin offering helicopter trips in July in New York, taking passengers from Manhattan to John F Kennedy airport....
...J F C Fuller did not invent the tank....
...Monet felt similarly: invited to exhibit in Tokyo, he replied, “with the admiration I have for Japanese art, I am wondering what would be the point of showing my poor efforts there.”...
...CTM is how Chatham appears on railway tickets, and the F stands for the Napoleonic forts in the area....
...Mr Fillon says: “I want the state to withdraw as much as possible from companies in competitive sectors . . . I am pro competition.”...
...Ford last year took the audacious decision to launch an aluminium-bodied version of its F-150 pick-up truck — the F-Series accounts for the majority of its worldwide operating profits....
...Had T&L followed best practice in the analogous drugs business, it would have ensured its pipeline was full of replacements....
...Letter in response to this report: New York City has its own long-running saga / From J M L Stone...
...NB The data in Z1 F.102 are basically the same as those in the NIPA 1.14, but the latter do not include profits retained abroad. We only have these after tax and so I cannot make a pre-tax comparison....
...… Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend I admit. I am one of those devoted fans of Haruki Murakami....
...LG announced a larger-sized Optimus G Pro smartphone to compete with Samsung’s Galaxy Note II, as well as a range of cheaper L and F series smartphones for emerging markets, where most growth in smartphone...
...Time for plan B C D E F G H I J K L M? BofA is said to be considering — not seriously according to the WSJ — issuing “tracker stocks” on Merrill Lynch....
...Mohamed El-Erian, Chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco Over the years, I have found Thomas Friedman’s writings to be insightful and influential....
...I did some flying last month in a faded but perfectly serviceable 1966 Cessna 172 from the Caribbean island’s George F. L....
...I suspect increasing numbers of investors are inclined to agree. pauline.skypala@ft.com...
...In practice, the F-35 is a family of three fighter jets, all assembled on the same production line by Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, with at least 70 per cent component commonality....
...Mr Buckley is son of William F. Buckley, founder of The National Review and prominent conservative commentator....
...By the early 1900s Lehman was helping corporate American stalwarts Sears, Roebuck and F.W. Woolworth raise capital....
...The alternative meant a trip to nearby Stuart or Fort Pierce. Forty years later, the official 2000 census stated Port St Lucie’s population at 89,000, and four years after that, it soared to 118,000....
...“Honestly, I was surprised none got more than a C+,” said Mr Kleanthous....
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
...His uncle was President John F. Kennedy. His mother, Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics....
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