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...Compass also said it had secured waivers on net debt covenant tests due September 2020 and March 2021....
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...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...Undercurrents of sensitivity and shyness course through this work — a surprising revelation from a man who, in his prime, seemed cut from bronze, but whose moral compass is touchingly calibrated....
...The result was the GRID Compass, which went into production in 1982....
...Recently, the needle and the stitch have made their bid for serious appreciation in a number of shows, especially the spectacular exhibition last year at the V&A....
...There are ceramics in the walls and floors in the V&A. Why not in a dome too? The porcelain vessels are held on a red shelf....
...Sponsorship of the V&A’s current China Design Now exhibition “was snapped up in seconds” by HSBC, Ms Newman said, because it fitted so well with the bank’s interests in Asia and its strategy to emphasise...
...Alain Ducasse, the French super chef, is overseeing the revamp of the kitchens at the old Dostyk hotel, whose cooks are being trained at the George V and Plaza Atheneein Paris....
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