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...This was the first time in three years that BlackRock opposed McGrath, the former chair and chief executive of MTV....
...“You could talk about Taiwan, Tiananmen Square and Tibet,” said McGrath....
...Doyle does a fair job of reclaiming free speech from the ideological right: he cites, for example, how the American Civil Liberties Union defended neo-Nazis’ right to march through Chicago in 1977....
...Mr Farley spent the first part of his career at Toyota, including Lexus, before joining Ford in 2007....
...During his teenage years, he rebuilt car engines and went to work for Toyota after college where he held product and marketing positions, becoming group vice-president for the luxury Lexus brand....
...Most people were too busy reading Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree, which was his paean to what he say as a frictionless globalised world order. Kaplan was far closer to the truth....
...For example, Toyota manufactures 70 per cent of its US sales locally, but exports Prius hybrids and Lexus luxury vehicles from Japan....
...Liu is a fine arts graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and runs menswear capsule YOU AS, while Schuyler reportedly works for eyewear company FGXI....
...Nymex’s owner, CME Group of Chicago, says it will close down its New York commodities trading floor, the last of its kind in a city once full of them, after all but 0.3 per cent of its energy and metals...
...Harvey McGrath, deputy chairman of the mayor’s London Enterprise Panel, said the city “needs to manage the pressures that come with success, particularly around quality of life and cost of living, that could...
...Daniel Mauro, Chicago, IL, US...
...moved in Chicago slaughterhouses or by the workings of a watch factory....
...… The Bone Seeker, by MJ McGrath, Mantle, RRP£16.99 McGrath’s female Inuit hunter/detective Edie Kiglatuk is an Arctic guide who knows every inch of the Alaskan forests....
...… Danah Boyd Author of ‘It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens’ (Yale) Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (University of Chicago Press) brilliantly deciphers...
...“Because of the big story we’re communicating, it’s a fairly easy calculation,” said Brian Smith, Lexus vice-president of marketing....
...Pat Womack, a BMW dealer in suburban Chicago, said that Mercedes-Benz and Toyota’s Lexus luxury brand had become especially aggressive in recent weeks....
...The central market for oil is now part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, although it is making inroads into London in an apparent effort to escape new US rules under the Dodd-Frank act....
...William McGrath, chief executive, announced the new model, whose two rings and three ovens can be operated separately – a bit like a normal cooker....
...In 1982, when seven people died in Chicago as a result of taking Tylenol, the painkiller, Johnson & Johnson responded aggressively by recalling 30m bottles of the drug and communicating clearly with the...
...The car wash, Keatley Detail, received a sudden influx of business over the next few days, and Ms Nelson took her Lexus SUV in for a clean-up soon after....
...She includes some instructive success stories, including a Lexus car dealership in Chicago that offers customers free car washes, and hints on selling to women face to face (make eye contact, let her speak...
...After much deliberation and after attending a few sessions at business Schools (LBS, Chicago, IE and IC), I have come to the conclusion that I need an MBA to understand the language of business and converse...
...Sam Scatterday invited hundreds of potential car buyers to an evening of appetisers, drinks and live music this week at his two Lexus dealerships in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Mount Kisco, New York....
...As news of Barack Obama’s victory was beamed into Grant Park, in downtown Chicago, most of the 200,000 assembled partygoers exploded in a powerful roar....
...“There’s a lot of long-only intelligent money that is looking at the fundamentals [of the banks] and saying this is not good,” Mr McGrath says....
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