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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Berkshire’s BNSF Railway, which runs from California to Illinois, reported a decline in shipping revenues and said consumer and industry demand had fallen....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Back in 1999, Rifkind Levy picked up a 999-year lease on disused railway tunnels underground, behind Lords’ Nursery End....
...“The groundwork for this case was set in two previous cases — Daimler AG v Bauman and BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell — in which the Supreme Court put limitations on the jurisdictions of state courts,” says Mr...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 4. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Pyrex was originally developed as temperature-resistant glass for railway lantern globes more than 100 years ago, while its properties as containers for baking goods were discovered almost inadvertently....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...Performance fees earned for exiting deals dropped to $233m, from $333m a year ago, dragged by Carlyle Partners V, its $13.7bn North America buyout fund started in 2007 with investments from Getty Images...
...The railway sector has already taken its lumps, although stocks such as CSX and Union Pacific have recovered somewhat since the beginning of the year....
...Pershing Square, Mr Ackman’s fund, was until recently the biggest shareholder in CP and installed Mr Harrison — a former chief executive of Canadian National Railway — after ousting the previous CP management...
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...the number of people coming online is stabilising, with internet penetration rising 9 per cent year-on-year in 2015, at the same speed as in 2014 and slower than the year before, according to the Kleiner Perkins...
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...The Silicon Valley-based company will pay $3.3m in overtime back wages and $2.5m in liquidated damages to more than 350 former and current sales employees who worked at branches in California, Illinois,...
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Biggest Deal: The $26.6bn acquisition of US railway Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2009....
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...Mr Chang studied for two masters of fine art degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois and the Seoul National University in Korea....
...In recent weeks, employees at a Caterpillar plant in Illinois, railway workers with Canadian Pacific and staff at Lockheed Martin’s fighter jet facility in Texas have all taken to picketing over pay and...
...I have to end the post on the epic basketball game played between Kellogg & Chicago Booth prior to the Chicago Bulls V Milwaukee Bucks NBA match at the United Center....
...But Shiyang Wang, analyst at Barclays in New York, said that although production in the Appalachian basin had been cut, US coal – namely from the Illinois basin and the Powder River Basin in the centre of...
...Canadian Pacific shares, which have under-performed those of other North American railway operators especially its chief rival Canadian National Railway, surged by 6.8 per cent to $64.57 in late trading...
...Chris Perkins, head of derivatives clearing at Citigroup Global Markets, says his bank is setting up 2,000 accounts for clearing....
...The construction and mining equipment giant, based in Illinois, said sales by non-US subsidiaries to Syria were estimated at about $600,000 the first quarter of 2011....
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