Hints and tips:
...Metro Bank has started its search for a new chairman to replace its founder Vernon Hill....
...The metro line linking the airport and the city — built by a separate contractor — will not be ready until next year, making it difficult to reach a site far to the north-west of Istanbul’s touristic centre...
...Line 1, backed by JICA and Japanese construction contractors, is scheduled to start commercial operation in late 2020....
...In seeking to modernise military forces, other states are also moving away from traditional contractors to private tech firms....
...They cosy up (Westar/Great Plains), they split up (Metro/Ceconomy), they mess up (Carillion, Pearson)....
...Amid the sumptuous gold leaf decorations, stained glass and mosaic tiles of Printemps, not to mention the shop’s luxury products, I felt on a recent trip as if I had been whisked 150 years back in time to...
...This could inform decisions on where to add metro or bus stops, for example, or better time traffic lights....
...Its signalling system is already being used on certain lines on the Metro de Madrid and the Shenzhen in China....
...While commentators speculated that this was because of a copyright issue, Microsoft insisted that “Metro UI” had only ever been an internal code name....
...Contractors will be offered long-term concessions to build then operate metro or commuter rail lines, with future fare levels set out clearly in contracts....
...Contractor Balfour Beatty slid 1.9 per cent to 211.7p on a downgrade from Merrill Lynch, its house broker....
...With Letterpress, that means clear, flat tiles, simple animations and light colours that have more in common with Microsoft’s “modern UI” design (formerly known as Metro) for Windows Phone and its Surface...
...Dyed-in-the-wool PC users will quickly realise that the tablet’s Metro interface is now their default view: to get to the desktop, you have to click on an app tile....
...But it also manages the Dubai metro, US military field hospitals, and is the biggest manager of air traffic control towers worldwide....
...A weather tile can be set up to show current weather conditions, and a tile for a Twitter app might display a constantly updating series of tweets....
...Central to the new Windows platform is a touchscreen interface known as Metro that is based on large “tiles”, similar to those already used in Microsoft’s smartphone software....
...Transocean and Halliburton , contractors on the project, were also criticised by the report. Transocean edged down 0.3 per cent to $73.04 but Halliburton lost 3 per cent to $38.22....
...Other trends include increased metro usage, commuters sharing cars and surging demand for bedsits....
...For a few weeks we attempted to solve the problem via digital photos but the choices offered from the contractors fell a little bit short and the suggestion of a set of pink, pearlescent tiles as a potential...
...Incomplete stadiums and other infrastructure such as highways and metro lines, some already developing construction faults – leaving little time for test runs. 2....
...The Obayashi Corporation, one of the five main contractors, said work on the remaining unopened stations would be slowed as a negotiating manoeuvre in payment talks with the government’s transport authority...
...Within its lofty halls, teams of contractors are working round the clock, placing marble floor tiles, installing baggage conveyer belts and readying aerobridges....
...Resignalling is a key challenge for modern metro systems because it is so hard to keep services running while the new system is installed and tested....
...These include Wal-Mart, Metro, Carrefour, Kingfisher, Lidl and Rewe....
...The finds prompted the developer to pull out of the project and hiring a new contractor cost the city a reported $2.3m. Other locations might not expect the same intensity of artefacts....
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