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...The British-Nigerian entrepreneur Dumi Oburota is best known for his work in music: he launched the careers of artists including Jessie J and Tinie Tempah....
...Both have impressive, eminently revivable back catalogues and could easily afford to rest on their laurels for a while, but both presented double bills of new material when their UK tours reached London...
...Richie Piper also suggests a bigger de Havilland Beaver floatplane. “Fantastic classics, originating from the second world war....
...So did pop acts such as Jessie J and Emeli Sande. Edwards filmed Ed Sheeran performing his song “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” in 2010, a year before the singer-songwriter’s first chart hit....
...The third lesson from history, however, is that it is dangerous for activists to sit on their laurels — or over-reach too hastily or aggressively....
...J Scott Weaver, a longtime tenants’ rights activist, says he hates buyouts....
...For Richie Etwaru, the solution is to offer people legal title over their data....
...Viv Groskup takes the occasion of the opening of the new film about Laurel and Hardy, Stan and Ollie, to write about the curious dynamic of comedy duos and their widespread appeal....
...Because it would take the mythical Oracle from that Greek site to divine what’s going on under its current owner: J Sainsbury....
...Other indicators have not looked so bad, and the laurels have gone to those who stayed with the market. There has been a huge debate over ways to adjust and improve the details of the Cape....
...In Edinburgh’s Princes Street there is a bench with a brass plaque stating simply, “Remembering J.C.H. Who was often tired.” It’s a delightful moment....
...J Sainsbury is the strongest of grocery’s Great Powers. The shares trade at about 11 times forecast earnings, a small premium to rivals, and the yield is a chunky 4.6 per cent....
...… By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$15.95 The volcanic island of Annobón, off the west African coast, provides the setting...
...A.J.P. Taylor, the Birkdale-born historian, attributed Lancastrian whimsicality to the “south-west wind, bringing an atmosphere that is always blurred and usually gentle”....
...Strange Shores , by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 The king of Icelandic crime fiction is not resting on his laurels, as the valedictory Strange Shores proves...
...The last thing mankind needs is to give great managers an excuse to rest on their laurels....
...It is unwise to rest on Nobel laurels....
...“There has been more documentation on what happened on two blocks of Laurel Canyon than on the entire east of Los Angeles,” he says. “That was a very particular vision of Utopia....
...Richard J. Daley, Chicago’s legendary mayor from 1955 to 1976, is chiefly remembered for two things: old-school, rough-and-tumble machine politics; and abuse of the English language....
...The deals included the March 2008 purchase of the Laurel Pub group out of administration....
...Its fortunes are in contrast to those of Globe Pub, Regent Inns, Orchid and Laurel – tenanted operators that have been forced into either receiverships or administrations....
...And J.G. Farrell wrote, “The loss of the British Empire is the only interesting thing that happened in my adult life.” Not that some of these attitudes don’t remain....
...debt taken on by private equity and property investors in the pub sector was “running down” the institution that is the British pub; “stupidity” and “greed” had helped drive the collapse of groups such as Laurel...
...The outspoken 53-year old said “stupidity” and “greed” had a role to play in the collapse of pub groups such as Laurel Pub Company and Orchid Group....
...Orchid Group, which operates the Country Carvery and Sri Thai chains, and Food & Drink Group, the owner of Jamies wine bar, have been among the casualties – as were Laurel Pub Company, Massive Pub Company...
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