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...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...The details of the company’s decline are complex but essentially it overexpanded, an investor took over, and Cox left in 2007....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Nasa administrator Bill Nelson called cost-plus contracts such as this “the old way of doing business” when he testified before Congress in May....
...The wheeling and dealing did nothing but torture investors, even trapping the likes of Trian Fund Management’s Nelson Peltz and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett into bad trades....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...That’s good for cyclicals or companies whose EPSs get a boost from a rebound in economic activity; not so good for financials....
...more than 90 per cent since March, and a V-shape recovery is no longer in the cards....
...(The company labels these changes as a “comprehensive change in the management board” though you might have a different description.)...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...“Unfortunately, pharma companies aren’t like other companies. Just like doctors aren’t like other people, we take an oath and are bound by it,” says Dr Nelson....
...But to a younger generation some of these objects are increasingly as alien as objects in the V&A or the British Museum.”...
..., surpassing Morgan Stanley’s $120m payday for Monsanto’s $66bn sale to Bayer in 2016....
...It would top the $120m paid to rival Morgan Stanley when it advised on Monsanto’s $66bn sale to Germany’s Bayer in 2016....
...Elizabeth Warren said she would challenge mergers of big agricultural companies, such as German chemicals group Bayer’s 2016 purchase of US seeds group Monsanto....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...The results can be manipulated by the public and will be projected on to Nelson’s column....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...(FT) Zuckerberg v Cook Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at Tim Cook’s veiled criticism of Facebook’s data policies, saying the suggestion that his company did not care about its users was “extremely glib” and...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...(FT) Video of the day The P&G/Peltz battle explained Activist investor Nelson Peltz and changing consumer habits are shaking up century-old company Procter & Gamble. (FT)...
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