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...travails were chronicled in a best-selling book, Barbarians at the Gate, which details the company’s $30bn takeover of RJR Nabisco and the pulverising tactics that earned it a reputation as a Wall Street wrecking...
...At 6ft 5in and 18 stone, Itoje has been described as a “one-man wrecking ball”, but that doesn’t do justice to his talents....
...The book’s case is that perversely subsidised fossil-fuel companies are not just wrecking the environment but are also bending democracy out of shape....
...Yanis Varoufakis, the former minister of finance for Greece, is many things — a bad-to-the-bone EU wrecking ball, a dab hand on the keys, an econ wonk, a Question Time meme and a friend to current Labour...
...Cave into Apple’s demand and other device makers will demand their own concessions, wrecking its high-margin royalty model. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers....
...The list of those lining up behind the pop star also included some who have recorded big hits with Dr Luke, including Miley Cyrus, who worked with the producer on her song Wrecking Ball, and Kelly Clarkson...
...Wrecking, or looting the washed-up debris of shipwrecks, was a big industry in Cornwall in the south of England in the 19th century....
...Doug Parr, Greenpeace’s chief UK scientist, accused George Osborne of taking “a wrecking ball” to the clean energy sector....
...Carving the PC and printer businesses as HP Inc out of HP’s enterprise IT operations will split a group valued at about $50bn into two almost identically sized companies....
...However, that discipline could yet collapse, wrecking operators’ profitability and casting fresh doubt on their orders....
...The attack combined revelations with a “wiper” hack, deleting documents and wrecking computers....
...“ICE swung a wrecking ball at the industry by raising margin requirements in early March 2008, and a lot of us have always held Tom responsible for that,” says Jordan Lea, co-owner of Eastern Trading, a...
...The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 heralded a savage moment of reckoning for Britain’s economy; the shock that started in the financial sector wiped 7.2 per cent off national output, wrecking the public...
...After taking a wrecking ball to her Disney image via Terry Richardson and the twerking-with-Robin-Thicke VMA incident, thus rendering her former self unrecognisable, she is now rebuilding....
...Rock the spoon back and forth, keeping most of the action at the bottom of the glass, to incorporate the syrup without wrecking the froth....
...Subsequent efforts to expand on this work have included some fun-wrecking attempts to give executives a template for which kinds of wittiness to deploy and when – one study features a flowchart called an...
...If he cannot see eye-to-eye with Blackstone and the firm decides not to go ahead without his support, then he risks being accused of wrecking the chances of a bid that a special committee of Dell’s board...
...Shigeo Abe, editor of Facta and a 25-year Nikkei veteran, speculates that Japan’s broadsheets are afraid of everything from losing advertisers to wrecking relations with corporate bosses....
...M&A spreads – the difference in price between shares of companies engaged in deals – have widened to two or even three times what they were in July, for example, wrecking bets based on spreads tightening...
...A factory once hailed as a flagship of Scotland’s aspirations to become global centre for semiconductor manufacturing fell to the wrecking ball on Monday as the site’s new owner launched its redevelopment...
...significant was a global crisis in productivity, which threatens to leave expensive research laboratories worldwide – like America’s industrial-age “Rust Belt” factories before them – at the mercy of the wrecking...
...Britain may have been a pioneer of the modern railway but it did quite a good job of wrecking its own system in the 1990s....
...“But people already use their phones here without wrecking them.”...
...“The global financial crisis hit commercial real estate in Asia Pacific like a wrecking ball,” said Alastair Hughes, regional chief executive of Jones Lang LaSalle....
...This has allowed investors to consider them debt, while companies treat them as mostly equity – which does not risk wrecking a company’s credit ratings as extra debt can....
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