Hints and tips:
...“Boys and girls [in the US] don’t grow up thinking, ‘I’m going to be a writer’,” he once said, “the way we’re told Flaubert did.”...
...“I’m not sure what their business model is,” he said of BA. “But it doesn’t seem to be working.”...
...I’m struck by one bordered in a deep-button silk that is also pleated with burgundy velvet at the back. He points to another, in brassy gilt festooned with cherubs....
...There was The Lillie Langtry, the last inn on Abbey Road, which closed in 2022 and is due to be pulled down along with the neighbouring estate....
...“I’m a middle-aged running bore,” he explains. “It’s an addiction. I lost three stone in just a year. I’ll say, ‘I’m going to do a short run,’ and then I’ll come back having done a half marathon . . ....
...More than 30 years later, I’m back, staying two doors up the road at Beaverbrook Town House, a lavish new landmark on one of London’s most storied avenues....
...I’m sceptical. The sudden dearth of staff has arisen as restaurants and hotels have all reopened at once....
...Merck’s new CEO prescribed a hefty dose of M&A When Rob Davis took the helm of Merck in April, the pharmaceutical company needed a chief executive with just as much of a nose for M&A as they did for breakthrough...
...“So I’m responsible for a multigenerational trauma,” says Dan. “Exactly,” Rebecca agrees....
...I’m telling you, you can take all those things, but if you get coronavirus, it’s too late.”...
...Returning to the details of the GDP report, construction leapt 23.5%m/m after its slump in April while industrial production and services showed gains of 9.3%m/m and 7.7% respectively....
...“Any time I’m not in the process of producing a show, I leave New York.”...
...“We’re seeing business slow down, conferences and events being cancelled and that has a bigger impact on premium traffic which is a critical source of revenue for many network airlines,” said John Strickland...
...“I’m sorry, that is not acceptable. Your integrity is priority 4.” “I just jedi mind tricked this fools. I should be given $1,000 every time I take one of these calls....
...“It is hugely complex,” said John Strickland, an aviation analyst....
...(No, I’m not thinking at all of current British parliamentary events; why do you ask?)...
...It is where Edward VII and his mistress, actress Lillie Langtry, dined together in private....
..., I’m Her Willie....
...I’m based on a plane’ I hadn’t realised the insane travel schedule of my colleague, Laura Noonan, until I read this reflective column....
...Shortly before the beef arrives on my fold-out tray, I’m working out how to position my feet. My left leg is swinging over the carpet of a Boeing 777....
...Subdued wage growth is also hitting consumption,” says Tapas Strickland, economist at National Australia Bank....
...Mr Strickland said BA wasn’t able to give “precise information and have struggled with being able to communicate it to passengers as they don’t have their normal tools at their disposal”....
...“The scale of their operation at Heathrow means this has really hit them at their heart,” says John Strickland, a London-based aviation analyst....
...If we don’t want it we can still buy the finest,” says Mr Strickland. But branding experts warn that BA has to tread carefully....
...“It’s become very difficult to work out what the catering offering is,” Mr Strickland said....
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