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...One of them was owned by Sir Howard Stringer, former chair of Sony, but he was about to sell....
...June 2005 British-born Howard Stringer becomes chief executive, the first foreigner to lead Sony with a mandate to restore profitability and turn the core electronics business round....
...Counterfactuals are the kind of guessing game we play when we wonder what would have happened if, say, Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo....
...Built with Henry Stringer, it provides beguiling panoramic views where burnished cattle bask in the summer heat....
...The French under Napoleon took Moscow, and the Nazis came close to conquering Stalingrad....
...Festival second-stringers joined other musicians at a packed Charlie Wright’s Jazz Bar in Shoreditch. Result: the exhilarating cut and thrust of a high-octane modern jazz joust....
...“We must be like the Russians defending Moscow against Napoleon, ready to scorch the earth to stay ahead of the invaders. We must be Sony United and fight like the Sony warriors we are.”...
...Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive, September 22 We said: “Sony missed its cue....
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