Hints and tips:
...This particular film is, we’re told, “more true than you’d think”, which means there’s only a teensy speck of authentic history here....
...With $165mn in assets, the lender that Hendrix runs is a mere speck on the $23tn balance sheet of the US banking system....
...The chief operating officer of Techbuyer, an IT asset disposal company in Harrogate, was standing in a large windowless room of a data centre in London surrounded by thousands of used hard drives owned by...
...Sited on a speck of an island, it consists of a villa with five suites and five further bungalows on its 200m of beach....
...Martin Schulz, the former Social Democrat leader, said he was behaving “like an extreme rightwing colonial officer”. Germany and the US have hit rocky patches before....
...We flew for five hours across the Pacific without seeing a speck of land. Easter Island is one of the remotest inhabited places on Earth. South America is 3,512km away....
...Klaus Baumann, Birkenstock’s chief sales officer, shrugged: “It was never about function for them, just logos. These were not product people.” He paused....
...The facility measures 650ft across, making workers on the far end appear like specks....
..., the firm’s chief financial officer who was previously group CFO at Alea, an insurance-focused investment firm controlled by Fortress....
...And April Underwood, Slack’s chief product officer. “I’ve learned a lot from her. She’s a lot better at figuring out people’s motivations [than me], what’s really going on.”...
...Our vehicles were tiny specks in that epic landscape, and even they laboured for lack of oxygen....
...A friend who began his career in restructuring was once told by the chief financial officer of a troubled company to empty the minibar in the hotel room where negotiations were to take place, as he feared...
...“What started as a product is evolving into a platform,” says Derek White, chief design officer at Barclays....
...As night descended on the Caribbean on October 17, a US Coast Guard patrol aircraft spied something suspicious in the seas south of St Croix, one of the many beautiful specks of land that make up the US...
...By the time this deal is done – January 2013 at the earliest – more nimble competitors may be distant specks on the horizon. Tokyo has sat on its haunches since demutualisation a decade ago....
...Unlike Lady Thatcher, he sees himself as chairman, not chief operations officer. And unlike Mr Blair, he is a Conservative....
...That is, that the universe is unimaginably vast and is expanding, that we are a speck – but as far as we know, the only speck with life. Happy with that?...
...Earlier in the day, I had driven for six hours from London to County Durham without seeing so much as a single speck of the white stuff....
...“It was a good speech in the circumstances,” conceded Joseph Davidson, a retired fire officer. “But this no longer feels like a safe seat for Labour....
...There are a few hundred traditional and simple homes, or saetjip, once the abodes of farmers, on this volcanic speck, now a popular honeymoon and diving destination for Koreans....
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