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...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...Noel Quinn has been all-in on Asia from the very beginning....
...He will continue in a separate role in which he counsels HSBC’s chair Mark Tucker and chief executive Noel Quinn, and remain as non-executive chair of HSBC’s Middle Eastern subsidiaries....
...Fears over refinancing have hit other developers with dollar debts, including Fantasia Group, which was downgraded last week, and Guangzhou R & F....
...The Flamingo was a popular live-music venue, where famous musicians such as members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix hung out and listened to jazz and R&B....
...“I thought those guys were an R&B band who hadn’t worked that out yet,” he says lugubriously....
...“Born to Be Free” is supper-club R&B, with electric organ shimmering like candlelight and guitars and cymbals ticking away like the sound of cutlery and chinked glasses....
...The group says baldly that recession with a big R is heading down the pipes. Recession will bite harder at retail landlords, particularly those such as Hammerson, which are already ailing....
...The mid-aughts had been a golden era for massive LBOs which saw household names like Toys R Us and Hilton go private....
...Only two common words in English end G-R-Y. Can you name them both? What’s the English word for what Americans call a ‘sidewalk’?...
...Needless to say, the hedge fund that gained notoriety last year for taking on both Blackstone’s GSO and Toys R Us employees is now suffering heavy redemptions....
...Its operating margin halved, reflecting the cost of a new factory and coming up with more supercars, but not R&D expenditure, which Aston capitalises....
...At the Other Stage, UK chart-topper Lewis Capaldi made light of Noel Gallagher griping about his presence at Glastonbury by dressing up as the former Oasis man....
...The electrifying stomp of “You Better Run”, like a hard-boiled 1960s R&B band going punk, showed where Gallagher’s songwriting speciality really lies....
...Chancellor made an erroneous assumption / From Noel Whiteside...
...43 Annette King CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Group UK 44 Jean Mouton senior partner & managing director, Boston Consulting Group 45 John Tomovcsik executive vice-president & general manager, North American R&...
...Vincent Boland is the FT’s Ireland correspondent Favourite thing Higgins spent his first pay cheque on a painting of one of his political mentors — Noel Browne....
...Maguire , group chief operating officer, HSBC 16 Steve Varley , chairman, EY 17 Chris Grigg , chief executive, British Land 18 Eileen Taylor , global head of regulatory management, Deutsche Bank 19 Noel...
...Chinese adults struggle to discriminate between the sounds of the letters R and L. But Chinese babies and infants are able to do so....
...Slideshow photographs: Fred R Conrad/ Eyevine; Darren S Higgins/ Eyevine; AP...
...£31, The Wine Society Ruinart, R de Ruinart Brut NV Bready nose with real interest. Something to get your teeth into. Very clean and neat and tastes as if it had quite a bit of age on lees....
...A paper by Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Noel Sacasa and Amadou N.R. Sy, all from the IMF, argues that financial regulation should be simpler and more robustly enforced....
...Sophia Antipolis has grown steadily each year, bringing in about 35,000 jobs, says Jean-Noël Durvy, managing director of the foundation that promotes the science park, or technopole in French....
...Andrew’s picks ● Domaine de la Rectorie is imported to the UK by Richards Walford (r-w.co.uk) and stocked by the Wine Society (thewinesociety.com), which also imports Mas Blanc....
...Mr Immelt’s commitment to innovation has been matched by sustained financial support for R&D, even through the downturn....
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