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...Mockney wheeler dealer “Del Boy” Trotter was known for his French language faux pas and council flat in Nelson Mandela House, London....
...this article: A possible upside to the space jaunts of the wealthy / From David Coombs, Corby, Northamptonshire, UK Space jaunts for the rich come with a climate cost / From Ronald Kaiserman, Wynnewood, PA...
...nears purchase of start-up valued at $1 billion (WSJ) Global tech founders back London-based start-up fund (FT) Lebanon’s Central Bank fuels corruption, extremism concerns (WSJ) Carlyle sells stake in PA...
...It was an embarrassing faux pas — misspelling the name of the world’s largest luxury goods company — that made some wonder if Tiffany was signalling its disinterest in the LVMH bid....
...“This is a pure data play,” said Nilesh Chandra, a partner focused on healthcare strategy at PA Consulting, noting tech companies’ broader push into the health industry....
...The former chair of Lazard took on the PA chairmanship in January 2014 and helped steer the UK consultancy into a deal with Carlyle, which took a 51 per cent stake in the group in 2015....
...In this analysis of the ranking, they jump above AT Kearney and PA, which achieved no six-star ratings....
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...It was bought in 2005 by PA Group, parent of the Press Association news agency, and sold to General Atlantic in 2014....
...The corporate governance faux pas could only comfortably be shrugged off if performance had been poor. Chairman Roger Yates is in a tight spot ahead of the November 3 vote....
Norway’s oil fund readies a raid against complacent boards
...Profit before tax more than doubled to £82.5m, but Mr Cobbold said this was because of the sale of a business by PA Group, in which UBM holds a stake....
...The PA will make a profit of about £125m from the sale, according to the newspaper group Trinity Mirror, which is a major PA shareholder alongside News UK, Daily Mail and General Trust and UBM....
...the statement and minutes indicate that the committee is in a more data dependent frame of mind, then a 25bps move in November would be a distinct possibility, and we, in turn, would stick to our 9.75% pa...
...But 16 years of the slow life in Alabama has cleaned up his behaviour to the point where he might attend a debutante ball or even the odd white gloves and manners class without committing an awful faux pas...
...But over the years when markets fell, hedge fund returns averaged minus 3 per cent pa, while traditional fund returns averaged minus 22 per cent pa – confirming the advantage shorting brings....
...Guðrún Pétursdóttir (Guðrún, daughter of Pétur). Members of a family can therefore have many different “surnames”, which sometimes causes confusion to foreigners!...
...(Ne touchez pas la hache was the book’s original title.) Older artists, from Rohmer to the Tavianis, seem to get these attacks of neoclassicism....
...“The conundrum facing unions is how they can dispel an old-fashioned image and reinvent themselves,” says Stephen Brooks, of PA Consulting....
...Even one note of dissent would constitute a faux pas. Now imagine 137,449 reasons....
...“You need to be strong to pass price increases on to the original equipment manufacturers,” says David Vasak, a consultant at PA Consulting in Frankfurt....
...Faisal Aziz, PA Consulting Group, London ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… It seems that your recommendations call for an increase in retirement ages to 67 years of age....
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