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...US railroad Union Pacific on Sunday said it would replace its chief executive Lance Fritz this year. Investcorp is opening an office in Tokyo....
...In the words of ConocoPhillips boss Ryan Lance: “[The Permian] has been a great gift to the world over the last 10, 12, 15 years and it’s going to keep giving for a long period of time....
...There, executives gathered downtown in the George R Brown Convention Center argued that their companies would play a starring role in the transition to cleaner energy and the fossil fuel age was still burning...
...Martin Young, an analyst at Investec, said the focus for all the companies would be “the three ‘R’s of reinforcement, resilience and reliability”....
...that of the professional sports team, Hastings explains, “working to create strong feelings of commitment, cohesion and camaraderie, while continually making tough decisions to ensure the best player is manning...
...As he spoke, riot police were already manning barricades that closed off Moscow’s historic city centre....
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...His team mate, Canadian Lance Stroll, finished 2017 on 40 points. That was enough to secure fifth spot for Williams in the constructors’ standings....
...Campbell said it was buying Snyders-Lance best known for pretzels, kettle chips, and popcorn for $6bn. Hershey's said it would buy Amplify Brands, best known for Skinny Pop for nearly $2bn....
...Band Master Will Casson-Smith lays a set of 100-year-old bagpipes as Piper Lance Sergeant John Mitchell (R) plays at The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London, England....
...When brothers Gary and Colin Manning opened up in a former nightclub in 1999, prostitutes plied their trade outside....
...The dollar, which started the year buying R$2.50, built on gains, rapidly, to shoot just shy of R$4.25, a record nadir for the Brazilian currency. The central bank decided it had had enough....
...Squid rings and prawn x2 R$93.80 Guaraná Zero x4 R$22.00 Diet Coke R$5.50 Coffee R$5.00 Total (including service) R$171.58 (£43.00) This article has been amended since original publication to include...
...The writer is a fellow at the R Street Institute and a contributing editor at National Review...
...John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, US...
...To the T and S of Eliot, the F and R of Leavis, the D and H of Lawrence? What did the “M” stand for anyway? Was it Maxwell?...
...So today I’m increasing the rate of the above the line R & D credit to 10 per cent....
...From then on, it will be new chief executive Philip Clarke manning the till. Sir Terry will be checking out with the gift of an antique cash register from the Tesco board....
...It seems to me that much is implicitly premised on (r – g) being small. Maybe r will decline if g does, and the risk-free (ha!) rate is certainly low now. But maybe not, especially risk-adjusted....
...This is in addition to 80 per cent of the new sponsorship deals Ronaldo’s presence helped Corinthians cut for their football kit – branding on shoulders at R$4m, shorts at R$4.5m and sleeves at R$6.2m....
...Two people were shot dead at a California Toys R Us, but details were unclear. About 5,000 people waited for Macy’s Manhattan flagship to open at 5am....
...Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien – O don fatal, as Verdi sang, or double don. Whatever does an Oxbridge teaching career do to tender minds? Grown old and authorly, these men churn out their Homeric whimsies....
...“We had to ask ourselves what was the right level of sustained investment through the cycles,” said Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips’ senior vice-president for technology....
...Penelop’s older brother, George, 34, is manning the counter....
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