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...Vargas Llosa’s latest novel opens in a New York PR agency, where we meet Edward L Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the world’s first PR mogul....
...Fidelity’s Wright likes L&G, an institutional investor, with promising property projects, for example a £4bn partnership with Oxford university for housing and other schemes....
...Managing director Preston Benson says that the decision was made in consultation with its 31 incoming paying members, who were “pretty unanimous”....
...Any kind of beauty could creep in. l could have a fleeting relationship with any stranger, any object. The constant rhythm of creative exchange gave me a sense of purpose and faith....
...The chain’s “semi-annual sale” also saw a decline, chief investor relations officer Amie Preston said on a call Thursday....
...Barkley L. Hendricks reduces his usual palette to stark tones of black and white for “All Sides”, adding clothes of red, gold and green....
...(Private Equity International) K&L Gates’ Chicago office has hired David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins from private equity firm Quantum Global Group....
...The operating profits that assurers disclose for any given period largely reflect earnings generated from business written in years gone by, says Matthew Preston at Berenberg....
...Even so, said Matthew Preston, analyst at Berenberg, the results lacked “the big positive surprises – especially with regard to dividends beats – that we have become used to in recent years”....
...This view is echoed by a fund manager who is top 20 shareholder in L&G. “We are looking at the insurance sector closely, but we are not abandoning our stake or selling down,” he says....
...I secured the lease with the help of Archie Preston, a friend of my father’s, whom he had helped to establish his first business in Manchester in the 1940s....
...Martin Preston, an expert in marine pollution from the University of Liverpool, said recently the prospect of a leaking oil well in the Arctic gave him “nightmares”, because the oil would break up and evaporate...
...According to the French broadcasting authority, Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel: “Television viewing hurts the development of children under three years old and poses a number of risks, encouraging passivity...
...Instead of worrying about whether this will be a U-, L- or W-shaped recession, we can call it the Y-front recession....
...It owns the freehold to only one of its 180-plus stores (the first one, in Preston) and rent reviews are looming large....
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