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...Here you can rent a rowing boat, or stop for coffee or ice cream at one of the kiosks. All around the park there are statues of various kings, academics and mythological figures....
...Milton Keynes — established in 1967 — has long been the base for many of Santander UK’s employees, including IT and operations teams....
...“They aren’t just coffee mornings,” he said. “They are discussions at a high level about the partnership we are going to put in place.”...
...“A mathematician is asked if he’d rather have a cold coffee or meet God. He says he’ll have the cold coffee,” reports a character in this novel. Why?...
...Capitalism works in most circumstances — for furniture, coffee and a million other products....
...In the last week, Rusal unveiled “ultra-low” carbon Budweiser cans, Royal Dutch Shell sold a big chunk of its US shale holdings and Nespresso promised to make its coffee carbon neutral....
...I found myself fixating on my childhood and the strange, quasi-utopia where I spent weekends: Milton Keynes, a “new town”, dropped on to fields 50 miles north of London by the UK government in 1967....
...Taco Bell said it had to employ three marshals to monitor streams of around 20 cars going through the drive-through lane at its recently opened Milton Keynes site, while Starbucks said that with lockdowns...
...“No one sitting in a central office gave orders,” explained Milton Friedman, the free-market evangelist and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist who helped make Read’s pencil essay famous....
...Funding came from the sixpences (“proslavery rent”) on Britain’s imported casks of sugar, coffee and rum....
...Milton Obote, the president who bookended Amin in Uganda, had a taste for colonial dishes such as oxtail soup and T-bone steak over African food....
...It’s all I can do to manage my own workload and keep my mood regulated between the two highlights of my day, coffee time and the cocktail hour....
...Milton Friedman has had a tough year. The Chicago economist died in 2006, but his legacy lived on in corporate boardrooms....
...His model as a public intellectual is his intellectual opponent, Milton Friedman — the economist who propagated “Homo economicus”, the individual as rational maximiser of his self-interest....
...Find out where to power lunch in Frankfurt, the best places for a run in Tokyo, and addresses for proper coffee in Paris, plus much, much more....
...‘Roses’ is at Albion Barn, Little Milton, near Oxford, from June 24 to September 22; albionbarn.com. By appointment only Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Usually fond of dessert, Disney declines even a coffee, but she is not finished....
...On her many flights from New York she served Milton Berle; Frankie Avalon — “of course, a crush of mine”; and, on a nonstop “to the coast”, ie, Los Angeles, none other than Kirk Douglas....
...“This was more of a case of how can we use the levy to develop our existing staff,” he said during a coffee break between lectures on entrepreneurship finance and financial management....
...Just don’t say that to people preparing food, who reckon 31,000 litres of milk will be required for tea and coffee....
.../ From Martin Bowen, Milton Keynes, UK...
...The remaining lands and stately homes stayed with the family: the 15,000-acre Wentworth estate, Milton Hall in Cambridgeshire and the town of Malton....
...They are targeting “second cities” including Aberdeen and Milton Keynes. The English town’s councillors have long complained that Milton Keynes has been left in the digital dark ages....
...Sometimes, their nature changes radically — think of the shift from instant coffee in a plastic cup to Starbucks and its success in persuading us that coffee is a luxury, premium product....
...“I’d like to mischievously quote Milton Friedman,” he says, invoking the rightwing economist....
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