Hints and tips:
...“Africa is a key market for Sputnik V,” said the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a Kremlin-run wealth fund overseeing Sputnik V’s foreign sales....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...Sean Collins, chief economist at the Investment Company Institute, the global trade body, reported a big move into lower-cost products....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller even won a Nobel Prize for their theory that dividends are irrelevant (there was a bit more to it than just dividends)....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Robert Kelly Ortberg, executive vice-president for government systems in Rockwell Collins, the producer of electronics to the air industry, said: “Just like every other US company, we are looking to the...
...Diane Miller, principal at Mercer, agrees....
...On the UK side, the bidders are Christopher Miller and David Roper, known in the City as the turnround specialists who run Melrose, the quoted bid vehicle....
...“The US is really four markets when it comes to products,” says Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup and a former US oil official....
...I googled them (yes, google v. is in the OED), but I can’t vouch for the results. Even Official Scrabble Words doesn’t tell us what “thang” and “nang” mean....
...Iain Miller, vice-chairman, Doosan Power Systems, the green energy company. Keith Mowbray, business development director, Dytecna, the engineering company....
...In the 1960s, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi SS officer who had developed the infamous V-2 rocket during the second world war, was working for Nasa, the US government’s National Aeronautics...
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...In the 19th century, the US Supreme Court held that Samuel Morse could patent his telegraph device, but could not patent the exclusive right to exploit the electromagnetic spectrum....
...When I caught up with him earlier today, Yahoo’s new CFO, Tim Morse, said he’s certainly open to reshuffling the company’s portfolio of businesses in ways that help it make more money....
...Collins Stewart....
...“Half of the exhibition is dedicated to Peter’s perfectly preserved wardrobe,” says Dr Lesley Miller, senior fashion curator at the V&A....
...“There are two reasons why people tend to cut dividends,” says Sam Morse, manager of the FidelityMoneyBuilder Growth fund. “The first is affordability....
...But today those taking up golf see pictures of Seve Ballesteros in a plain navy blue Slazenger V-neck jumper and think, ‘How cool does he look? I want to look like that.’”...
...Syl Tang tracks trends and runs HipGuide Inc....
...Then there was McCabe and Mrs Miller, which did for the western – well, that’s it, it did for the western....
...OFT chairman Philip Collins studied law as an undergraduate alongside Robert Webb QC, now general counsel at BA....
...An official pointed out for obscure reasons he should be known as Prof v. Pierer, not von Pierer. In fact, his business card says he is Prof Dr Jur Dr-Ing E.h. Heinrich v Pierer....
...As Mr Miller also observed, Delphi’s bankruptcy is “well-financed, well-organised and well-planned”....
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