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...Recently it has recommended Timothy D Snyder’s Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary and Roger L Martin’s When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency....
...Lyndon B Johnson once reminisced America’s greatest presidents were “remembered best for their successes in human rights”....
...Hello from Frankfurt, where the skies are grey and the streets are empty and it all feels a lot like the B-side of David Bowie’s album Low....
...The Six Flags proxy contest launched by Mr Snyder that afternoon was his Plan B. RedZone had first hoped to acquire the company by purchasing it in a traditional buyout....
...Take Campbell Soup borrowing more than $5bn in March to fund its acquisition of the snack foodmaker Snyder’s-Lance, CVS Health issuing $40bn in bonds to help pay for its acquisition of Aetna or the buildings...
...Before Campbell Soup sold $5bn of debt this month to fund its purchase of US snack-food maker Snyder’s-Lance, its chief financial officer told analysts that the company’s prized investment-grade status was...
...Robert B Todd, Bristol, UK A Catalog of Birds, by Laura Harrington, Europa Editions RRP$16 Harrington tells the story of a young soldier, Billy Flynn, returning from Vietnam in the 1970s....
...I know that I experience a squeamish frisson watching Ruth Snyder, a housewife from Queens, sizzle in the Sing-Sing electric chair....
...of law which has not been foreclosed or otherwise enforced against the assets to which it applies; or… Next, found among the seemingly dull technical language on carrying out payments of the bonds: (b)...
...For example, latedeparture waxes lyrical about the aesthetic pleasures of London Heathrow Terminal Five’s B Gates satellite complex – “terminal with a view”....
...“But we’re saying: ‘I want to go from point A to point B in the least carbon-heavy fashion, or emitting the least particulate matter,’ ” Prof Winebrake says....
...Another significant issue for Diageo and Mr Malcom is how to increase sales when alcohol is already a mature market and Diageo has such a large share in some territories that it is beginning to bump up against...
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