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...If “apples” was an idiom for a certain kind of crazy, the way “nuts” or “bananas” are, Patrick Tallec would be “apples”....
...Nevertheless, other brands are making root-and-branch changes — rethinking their communication and retail strategies....
...Andrew Hill ——————————————- ECONOMICS Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35...
...I can state with certainty that, had I received a call from the branch manager instead of the bank’s ex-military security officer and the manager had said, “Mr Combs, Patrick, may I call you Patrick?...
...The US ambassador, Patrick Moon, and the head of the country’s three-member presidency, Zeljko Komsic, were to attend the glitzy opening party on Tuesday night....
...But none of their nostrums has commercial oomph compared with those of the legendary entrepreneurs H.J. Heinz and Lillian Vernon....
...Bärbel Vollmer, an elderly woman emerging on Thursday from a Berlin branch of clothing retailer H&M, found the restrictions imposed in June on Chinese imports “absolutely acceptable”....
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