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...George Pascoe-Watson, chair of the UK PR firm Portland and a former political editor of The Sun newspaper, has been poached to head the new business alongside Victoria O’Byrne, a former communications director...
...Chevron also this week announced capital spending cuts, after John Watson, its chief executive, said that dividend payments were its “top priority”....
...Two years ago John Watson, chief executive of Chevron, observed that “$100 per barrel is becoming the new $20”....
...Nor can those besmirched by the use of performance-enhancing drugs (Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds etc) or booze and high living (George Best)....
...That, some argued, would “lance the boil” on the thorny question of future EU membership....
...This month she announced a big push to turn Watson, the company’s most advanced computing project, into a significant business by helping companies make better use of vast bodies of data....
...You can do anything if you want it enough – even beat cancer, according to the cyclist Lance Armstrong. (The logical corollary is that if the cancer beats you, it may be your fault, not bad luck.)...
...The selection committee consisted of Sir Win, and board members Lord Leitch, Glen Moreno – also chairman of Financial Times owner Pearson – and Tony Watson....
...Johanna Garner joins from Goldman Sachs and Simon Robinson from Towers Watson. ● Invista has hired Tom Gamble from RREEF as a director and George Dickens from Kier Property as an associate director....
...Ric Van Weelden, partner and head of European business development at Watson Wyatt, is joining Janus Capital Group as director of international consultant relations....
...GAME OF SHADOWS: Barry Bonds, Balco, and the Steriods Scandal That Rocked Professional Sport by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams Gotham Books $26, 332 pages Outstanding investigative probe into the...
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