Hints and tips:
...The hasty staging of “referendums” in occupied areas this weekend is supposed to set a line that Ukraine and the west must not cross....
...Nokia in early March suspended deliveries of networking equipment to Russia, stopped accepting any new business and moved its limited R&D activities out of the country....
...Sociologists have also criticised the sudden termination of the well-regarded Bolsa Família scheme and the hasty implementation of Auxílio Brasil....
...Witness also the government’s hasty retreat last year from the suggestion it might look to change the rules bequeathed by the EU’s working time directive....
...It said a partial reopening would put the R rate at the lower end the range....
...The first wave had taught EU countries the cost of a “hasty” lifting of social restrictions, Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, said last week....
...As Micheál Martin, the Irish Taoiseach bluntly put it, all sides need to “cool it”, because hasty and unilateral actions by either side — as the commission amply demonstrated two weeks ago — have dangerous...
...Health officials, meanwhile, are fretting that the decision is hasty....
...From a distance it appears that momentum is building towards a Brexit deal — an impression fuelled by comments this week from the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin that both the UK and EU can see “the landing...
...Melrose denied it was a short-term investor and said it had spent about 4 per cent of sales on R&D at Elster and Nortek, its most significant recent acquisitions, “nearly double the level that GKN has seen...
...Southern Chinese property developer Guangzhou R&F Properties will buy dozens of hotels from Dalian Wanda Group for Rmb19.9bn ($2.94bn) in the latest twist in the Chinese conglomerate’s hasty asset sale....
...In July, R&F agreed to purchase 77 Wanda hotels on the Chinese mainland, in another hasty deal....
...In the case of Vale, the R$155bn claim is equivalent to twice the company’s market value....
...And the real, the Brazilian currency, is tipped by some analysts to be heading for R$4.40 after last week flirting with R$4 to the dollar....
...From Prof David R. Cameron....
...Rather, it makes for hasty political decisions that sound good, cost a lot and do little, while the policies that really can make a difference are left behind....
...That phrase has since come back to haunt him, triggering a hasty reshuffle at the top that raises fresh uncertainties for the future....
...One of the books that has influenced my thinking on business is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) by R.H....
...According to Micheál Martin, foreign minister, “We only have to get a relatively small slice of the pie to do really well.”...
...For example, companies make cuts across the board, from R&D spending to employee head count. Eventually, when signs of recovery are everywhere, they re-start spending to rebuild morale....
...Trad jazz became skiffle, and skiffle became blues or R&B. I augmented my living by playing guitar for a while in a whores’ hotel. There were no clothes in the shops....
...The cough is the remnant of a second bout of pneumonia, recurring after an over-hasty return to work....
...The priority is to create a tax environment, labour laws and support for R&D and training....
...Mr Osborne said the fall in UK levels of R&D suggested that “on the face of it,” the tax incentive has not worked....
...HOW TO MANAGE WITH REAL STYLE ■ Do not be too hasty in accepting new ideas. The fact that an innovation worked for one of your rivals is not a guarantee that it will also work for your business....
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