Hints and tips:
...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’?...
...“We had become complacent,” says Loftus. “Our entry-level steak is now £15.50 when it was £17.”...
...When Samuel Richardson’s 18th-century work of epistolary fiction Pamela was read aloud to illiterate villagers, the uplifting ending prompted church bells to ring out across the English countryside in celebration...
...Previous visits have yielded Pamela Druckerman’s parenting book French Children Don’t Throw Food and an irresistible striped-orange Penguin classic edition of Wuthering Heights....
...Would Cfius have blocked a strategic investor or private equity firm from launching a similar bid for Qualcomm, or even an activist investor pushing for deep R&D cuts? 2....
...Pamela Fang has joined private equity firm General Atlantic as a managing director of the firm’s capital partnering effort in Asia, based in Hong Kong....
...Two stark paintings by C.R.W. Nevinson greet visitors to The Sensory War, Manchester Art Gallery’s contribution to the first world war centenary commemoration....
...In R.J....
...During the past 20 years, as food prices fell in real terms, this decline was matched by a fall in investment in R&D....
...“Countries like China and India are offering significantly stronger R&D incentives,” Ms Harris says....
...Ericsson, the big telecommunications group, is to close its R&D site – just six months after it opened....
...Gerry Loftus, head of restructuring at Deloitte, says that retailers’ cost base typically are 30 to 40 per cent fixed but there is some room for manoeuvre....
...If you have concerns, I suggest that you discuss the same with the Company Secretary (ie Harry Baines not his secretary Pamela) who can advise you more fully on the minuting process....
...Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror By Chris Priestley Bloomsbury £9.99, 239 pages FT bookshop price: £7.99 This collection of ghost stories in the style of M.R....
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