Hints and tips:
...“People don’t understand that he is not just a financier, he is very attached to the company he built.”...
...Leon Black is a well-known patron of the arts. At his alma mater, Dartmouth College, there’s even a “Leon D Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies”....
...A graphic designer, she joined the company in the late 1990s to steer day-to-day operations. Peter “couldn’t handle India”, Urrshila says. “I thought I’d help him.”...
....” — Ambassador John C. Kornblum, Nashville, Tennessee...
...The latter’s arrest and subsequent imprisonment is told via an interview with a man named Gordon who recalls joining his roommate, Benjamin Faulkner, on a trip from Ontario to Washington D.C....
...come up with a bread that didn’t need to be cut with a knife....
...One response was Husky Energy’s C$6.4bn (US$4.8bn) hostile bid for rival oil sands producer MEG Energy, launched last month....
...Sometimes relationships do survive a momentary dalliance. Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...Lex, however, made a foray into the genre this week, opposing the idea of a “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and chief executive Meg Whitman....
...“Doesn’t matter who the attacker is, if you don’t have access to your systems on election day: what’s your plan B? What’s your plan C? What’s your plan D?”...
...“Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!,” he wrote, referring to Obamacare....
...People claim a huge interest in Mars. In fact, it's a dead rock and poisonous. You can't go outdoors. You'd have to live underground....
...The two lawmakers received a response from Lisa Austin, a GSA associate administrator, in March, but Mr Issa said it was unsatisfactory and that he planned to write to the organisation again....
...As we discussed in our post on Belgium, its boom occurred from a low base and wasn’t fueled by excessive borrowing....
...Hewlett-Packard shares jumped 8.9 per cent to $22.60 after Meg Whitman, the company’s chief executive, hinted that the company may initiate a buy back....
...It went to a federal appeals court on Monday, asking for the judges to discipline the claims administrator, Patrick Juneau....
...“They didn’t consider it a gimmick when it served their own purposes,” he said....
...“I have a sense that I know what the direction is even if I don’t know the level [of damage to growth].”...
...“Instead, I’d much rather dig into the issue myself and hear alternative viewpoints on the issue and be able to reach a decision.”...
...GradeFund sounds like a great cause. So, how’s the MBA been so far, anything in particular that you weren’t expecting?...
...Lob in auxiliary PR, ie industry “awards”, and frankly we’d be surprised if a disgraced chief executive didn’t have at least one “Banker of the Year” accolade to his name by the time of his (or dare we say...
...No apologies: For instance, if you received a C in economics, you may feel compelled to justify it somehow....
...And said that if his wife came to him and said that she’d like to stay around but she’d kind of like to sleep around a little bit, that he wouldn’t be able to live with that either,” Mr Goodwin testified...
...“You want a job, don’t you? Ms Bialek recalled him saying when she resisted....
...“But that doesn’t stop a Sipp member from booking and staying at the resort on the normal independent arm’s length commercial booking basis.”...
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