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...Pearson has largely squandered the proceeds of recent asset sales, Lex writes....
...Morrison & Foerster has hired Jina Choi as a partner in its San Francisco office....
...As monuments to hubris go, it’s hard to beat a ruler whose once vast empire has disintegrated into the desert’s “lone and level sands”....
...RatPac also partners with New Regency with films including Academy Award best picture winners Birdman and The Revenant....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As the festival’s official hub, the V&A will host talks about the future of design and a series of installations....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Sales from Sainsbury’s seasoned shelf space fell 2.8 per cent in the second quarter. This was a shade less bad than forecasts....
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...Comic-book death is rarely if ever permanent and Parker is only the latest hero to be crucified on the altar of sales....
...But his training with Delta Academy in Florida finished at just the wrong time, as airlines stopped hiring....
...Doctorow, Jay McInerney, Toni Morrison and Haruki Murakami....
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