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...He was chief executive of Laird, the engineering group, for more than 20 years, and later served as chair of Tesco....
...the approximate market share of the three largest rice producers added together (India Thailand and Vietnam) (4 marks) James Laird, St Andrew’s...
...At Rhyme Media, the producers are Lydia McMullen-Laird and Jennifer Sigl. Dan Bobkoff is the executive producer....
...It was a very complex project,” Mark Whitworth, a Cammell Laird director, told the Financial Times....
...They say the Japanese electronics group is best off chasing midsized deals (most likely under the $10bn mark) that fill critical strategic gaps rather than emulating expansionist megadeals of its US rivals...
...Rosenthal, managing editor, The New York Times, New York, August 20 1976; Clark Clifford, attorney, Washington, DC, August 10 1976; Bella Abzug, US congresswoman (New York), New York, June 19 1976; Melvin Laird...
...He will be replaced by Richard Harris, hired from the electronics components maker Laird, where he was group financial controller....
...The awards mark a key milestone in the competition, which is being run for the second time after the first tendering round was unexpectedly cancelled in the summer....
...Continental Farmers’ chief executive Mark Laird said in a statement the group planned to invest in new equipment, infrastructure, agricultural technology and land bank consolidation over the next two years...
...“The new lairds are much more in tune than the old farts, who may not be so open to events like this. They’ve probably even been to Glastonbury,” he says....
...Shares in Laird surged 73 per cent after the announcement....
...The growth marks something of a turnround for Laird after a difficult year in which it was forced to warn on profits, scrap its dividend and issue new shares to support its balance sheet....
...With Modern Gods, Laird marks himself out as a first-rate novelist, applying his virtuoso linguistic skills and acute ear for dialogue to a subject — religion — that is rarely well-handled in fiction....
...This week, like all those Norwegian firs that somehow find their way onto street corners overnight, loads more will appear: from Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrison’s and more....
...Mark Ma is heading back to HSBC from Platinum Equity, the US buyout firm. Ma will join the bank's Asia Pacific leveraged and acquisition finance team in Hong Kong, according to a memo seen by DD....
...In Scotland anger still reverberates down the generations over the conversion in the 19th century of large areas of moorland by chiefs and lairds, as well as wealthy southerners, into private pleasure grounds...
...Mark Thomas, the oil company’s North Sea regional president, spoke of further “exciting opportunities” — not least the Clair Ridge project, coming online next year....
...We have under-estimated the use of flowering plants in many of these green landscape gardens, but Mark Laird’s book, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800, has done their...
...Its history includes damsels throwing themselves from the battlements, hermit lairds, bankruptcies and sons falling in battles from Flodden to the Western Front....
...There was no need to shush the young ones: we were the lairds of this castle, if only for the night....
...Jackie Clune makes a swaggering, bullish Caesar, Jade Anouka a shrewd, charismatic Mark Antony....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include UBS, Sanofi, Luxxotica, RBS, Barclays, Laird, Bank of Ireland and Rotork....
...: 20 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival’, edited by Mark Fisher (Bloodaxe, £9.99)....
...On the other side of the river Mersey, Cammell Laird, a shipyard once in administration, is humming with activity....
...That the whisky industry leaves no mark on the craggy beauty of the Scottish landscape is expected by the consumer....
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