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...“You had this perfect storm of pent-up demand and restricted supply that has forced up new [and second-hand] car values,” said Mark Raban, chief executive of Lookers....
...said Auto Trader’s Plummer. “It all depends on the balance of supply and demand, and how long we remain as keen on cars as we are right now....
...The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, marks a major step forward for economic integration in the region, and follows almost a decade of negotiations....
...Letter in response to this article: No bangs for your buck / From Mark O’Hare, Chief Executive, Preqin, London, UK...
...“It’s become clear that the way you change behaviour is through pricing and government support,” said Mark Lavery, Cambria’s chief executive....
...Elsewhere, Michelle Williams is excellent as Paul’s desperate mother, while Mark Wahlberg exhibits his knack for crowbarring his no-nonsense Boston schtick into any scenario....
...As Getty’s hired investigator, former CIA man Fletcher Chase, Mark Wahlberg is a bland glissando of all his generic action heroes....
...Rail line has troubled history The announcement marks the third time that private companies have walked away from East Coast in just over a decade....
...This marks a turnround from the industry’s position immediately after privatisation in the 1990s....
...“We understand how passengers feel when fares go up, and we know that in some places they haven’t always got the service they pay for,” Paul Plummer, the group’s chief executive, said....
...Although Mr Loeb, Sotheby’s largest shareholder with a 9.6 per cent stake, reached a truce with the auction house in May, his stinging personal attacks on Mr Ruprecht’s leadership left a lasting mark....
...“The rivalry between the two houses is based on a relentless game of brinkmanship, one that to outsiders defies common business logic,” says Mr Plummer....
...“At the moment it’s very fashionable to say well, actually, somebody should be holding Network Rail much more strongly to account,” says Paul Plummer, strategy and planning director....
...The new bonus scheme comes at a crucial time for Network Rail, with unprecedented levels of funding and a new chief executive, Mark Carne, who took over in February, and earns £675,000....
...It also applies to group finance director Patrick Butcher, network operations managing director Robin Gisby and route strategy director Paul Plummer....
...His comments came two days after Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, expressed dissatisfaction following a White House meeting on US government spying with President Barack Obama and other tech chiefs....
...Possible internal successors include Patrick Butcher, the finance director, Paul Plummer, strategy director, and Robin Gisby, head of operations....
...Paul Plummer, Network Rail’s strategy director, said letting part of the network on concessions had been discussed as a possible solution but that it was not an option in the short term....
...Mark Brown, IT risk and assurance director at Ernst & Young, a consultancy, agrees that cloud computing will change the operating landscape, but believes it is likely to complement, rather than replace,...
...Paul Plummer, group strategy director of Network Rail, said the targeted savings would “come in at the low end” of McNulty’s proposed target....
...This will mark a reversal in the current trend towards distributed IT management and operations....
...Next month the world will mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the nuclear industry’s worst disaster....
...“This is a significant milestone for the company and positions OneSteel as a global player in grinding media,” said Geoff Plummer, chief executive....
...The move marks the first time that Huawei has voluntarily filed for a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US – or Cfius – since it was forced to abandon a joint bid for 3Com, the US technology...
...: Megan Fox, Beyoncé Knowles, Jon Stewart, Claire Danes, Mickey Rourke, Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti, Steve Buscemi, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Diane Kruger. 2010 Oscar nominations : 8, including Christopher Plummer...
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