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...Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a centre-right think-tank, said those concerns were “exaggerated,” arguing that while there were high-profile procurement failures at the...
...insolent, baying, magisterially delinquent Emperor Commodus, the thirtyish Plummer holds in his palms not just the audience but a cast of screen-epic veterans including Alec Guinness, James Mason and Sophia Loren...
...Smaller workshops will be at Bürgenstock Resort, a 383-room hotel and spa 500 metres above the lake which bills itself as “compact and secure” and was once frequented by movie stars such as Sophia Loren...
...That’s the cave house dwelt in by young Salvador, alter ego for young Pedro, and his mother, played by a Penélope Cruz doing at times the full Sophia Loren....
...The bottles had been assembled by Australian wine luminaries Andrew Caillard and Mike Bennie to exemplify the country’s “future wine icons”....
...Mr Hayes, who served as chief financial officer before becoming chief executive, “is about as numbers driven as an executive gets,” said Loren Thompson, consultant at the Lexington Institute, which gets...
...Andrew Hill's challenge The FT's management editor sets a weekly test of your business, strategy and management skills....
...Details Andrew Eames was a guest of the Bürgenstock resort....
...Leslie Willcocks of London School of Economics says he is “staggered how slow” big organisations are to introduce basic automation, let alone artificial intelligence....
...Loren Thompson, an aerospace consultant who has Lockheed as a client, said the industry was growing used to Mr Trump’s tweets and counting its blessings....
...The books on my bedside table are Napoleon the Great and Napoleon: A Life, both by Andrew Roberts....
...Natalie Massenet Net-a-Porter British resident A former fashion editor and daughter of a model who used to act as a movie stand-in for Sophia Loren, Massenet once told Vanity Fair she was “the laziest...
...And at the Gstaad Palace, the turreted hotel that rises above the town, the suave secret agent grins from a photo on the wall, alongside a host of other stars and former guests: Julie Andrews, Sophia Loren...
...Loren Thompson, an analyst with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, said it was very unlikely the fire involved the battery, since the fixes implemented after the January incident should have made combustion...
...Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, said that based on his conversations with several Boeing executives, the solutions the company proposed were not interim measures....
...For the women, black lace and corsetry set against images of Sophia Loren, sea, sunshine and pasta. One ad campaign from 2009 starred Madonna – an Italian-American – making pasta in the kitchen....
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...The agency’s emphasis on tightening up disclosure language poses a challenge for fund advisers and directors, says Andrew Donohue, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius and former director of the SEC’s division...
...Not a question one can imagine putting to Sophia Loren. Tony Barber is the FT’s special projects writer and a former Rome bureau chief...
...Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren (mum), Penélope Cruz (who should surely play Loren in a biopic), Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson …If you stretched the film’s divae end to end, you still couldn’t stop them standing...
...Nigel Andrews is away. His next report from Cannes will appear in Saturday’s FT Weekend...
...At the time HBW Russell “took” one of Queen Asantuah’s stools, he was private secretary to Major James Willcocks, commanding officer of the British Ashanti Field Force....
...Though the infant mortality rate in filmed opera is high – famed fiascos include 1953’s Aida with Sophia Loren miming to Renata Tebaldi’s voice – we can think in compensation of Syberberg’s Parsifal, Losey...
...And the lissom Cruz, accessorised with big hair and a specially built-up bottom, resembles a combination of Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani – and has built up her acting to match....
...For a truly invigorating (and wonderfully vituperative) little pep-talk on all this, check out Loren Feldman, a New York-based film-maker, on his website www.1938media.com....
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