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...Japan’s state dealmaking Is Japan back to the era of state interventionism?...
...“You can state 20 points in an opening statement, you get one of them that ends up being wrong you’re going to get hammered over the head with that throughout the trial,” Gravante said....
...This past June, I tried to rationalise driving nine hours north to the US state of Maine to buy a bed....
...Wouldn’t this state begin to look less like being on deadline and more like being at peace?”...
...Even before Covid-19 hit Europe, one British chief executive told me that he’d noticed some staff becoming less co-operative and having narrower horizons....
...Then to GMO, founded as Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co in 1977....
...He cites the welfare state and democracy as examples of the former. But, he warns, we are now witnessing an upsurge of its most malign forms....
...Joseph Torsella, Pennsylvania’s Treasurer, has accused the Quaker state’s two largest public pension funds of wasting $5.5bn paid as fees to Wall Street investment managers whose funds performed poorly....
...The FT’s Chris Flood takes a look at a showdown in Pennsylvania where a row has erupted over the investment policies of the Quaker state’s two biggest public pension funds....
...As if things couldn't get worse for ailing Chinese conglomerate HNA, one of its chairmen and co-founders died this week in a sudden accident in southern France, leaving a gaping hole in the Hainan-based...
...It’s not a good state of affairs at the moment, but it could be so much better.”...
...Why is Mr Flynn’s co-operation significant?...
...It's a structure invented by the Quakers to encourage co-operative decision-making. The group is co-owned by its members and doesn't take decisions without everyone's consent....
...He joined Barclays in 1982 and married a descendant of the old Quaker banking family who founded the Darlington bank J & JW Pease, which later became part of Barclays....
...Yvon Chouinard (1938-) An avid climber, Chouinard is co-founder of the privately owned Patagonia outdoor clothing business....
...An American Quaker, Samuel Evans Stokes, who later converted to Hinduism, introduced the crop a hundred years ago....
...PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats adapted by offering “sweet and savoury congee [rice-based cereal] containing . . . wolfberry, white fungus or red dates”, he added....
...“Shorbat Quaker”, or Quaker Soup, has become a popular starter on the Ramadan menu in the Gulf....
...First comes the recognition that monetary value is not an end in itself but a means to a life of co-operation, happiness, friendship and love....
...Those Quaker bankers may still have something to teach us all....
...Euthanasia in Quaker Philadelphia? Was Fidèle an undeclared mistress? Barnes’s wife was Laura, co-founder of the foundation’s admirable horticultural school....
..., tel: +27 (0) 21 871 1480 …………………………………………………………….. 263 Old Quaker Hill Rd, USA, $1.99m (£1.25m) ► Where: Quaker Hill, Pawling, New York, 90 minutes’ drive from Manhattan....
...Five weeks before Lucy’s bones were found, Marian became a Quaker. The sisters had also begun to share thoughts on the effect of divorce on their family....
...Who: Fine, www.fine.co.uk, tel: +44 (0)1908 969129 ………………………………………….....
...He also taught at an experimental Quaker college – all the while still running his audio company....
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