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...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...He would make little daisy-chain flower necklaces for me and draw pictures of himself on my hand like a tattoo. He had a wonderful sense of humour and liked to make fun of himself.”...
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
...The World of Work US investment and industries editor Brooke Masters wonders whether Citigroup’s new hub for junior investment bankers in Málaga, a Spanish city known better for beaches than finance, ostensibly...
...But while all of the conventional espresso drinks are here, served hot or freddo, Umbria slips in a little American influence in the form of flavoured coffees, such as a lavender latte, caffè al pepe (its...
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...period ballrooms, ivory guillotine miniatures, Proust’s bed, each little room an everywhere....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Delhi’s Little Tibet – so named for its Buddhist temples, Himalayan restaurants and population of Tibetan refugees – Ama Cafe makes for a delightful surprise....
...This week, US broadcaster CBS Sports went to Pulisic’s hometown of Hershey, Pennsylvania to engage in a little true-or-false about the city’s local star....
...The second, McEvoy Ranch, is 40 or so miles away in the rolling hills of Petaluma, noted for its exceptional olive oils....
...But the renewal of Claridge’s is different; it is a renewal of his commitment to London, “one of the greatest cities, if not the greatest, on Earth”....
...MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman , by Ben Hubbard, William Collins, RRP£20, 384 pages Malise Ruthven is the author of ‘L’Arabie des Saoud: Wahhabisme, violence et corruption’ (La fabrique)...
...It is against this background that Hopp et al have raised their heads above the parapet....
...National interest in food security has played second fiddle to laissez-faire economics: “Let consumers decide,” or, as Lang puts it, “Leave it to Tesco et al.”...
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