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...Crest Nicholson updated the market last week, when the construction group indicated full-year pre-tax profit would be £41mn, 15 per cent below consensus estimates....
...Where to watch “The Bitter Ash”: DVD ‘That Cold Day in the Park’ (Robert Altman, 1969) Fabled director Robert Altman was often specific in the city he chose to tell stories in....
...Not so, says Robert Armstrong, author of the FT’s Unhedged newsletter. In an article this week he argues that UK stocks are cheap for a reason. However, he also laid down a challenge to FT readers....
...Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson. I’m your host, Sonja Hutson. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz, and Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio....
...Here’s how Peter Nicholson, the department boss, remembers it: One topic Musk researched for Nicholson was Latin American debt....
...can make to Sunak’s polling numbers after his party conference speech failed to produce the desired uplift and his King’s Speech last week received a collective shrug from observers — not least the FT’s Robert...
...Germany’s deputy chancellor Robert Habeck proposed increased scrutiny of Chinese direct investment in critical sectors such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence....
...England Moro Dabron’s Downland scent (£96 for 50ml) was inspired by the Sussex Downs, in particular William Nicholson’s depictions of their undulating green serenity....
...Artists including LS Lowry, David Hockney and Ben Nicholson were among the nine works that went unsold (from 45 lots), while Pauline Boty, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and William Roberts all sold above their presale...
...UK housebuilder Crest Nicholson has dramatically increased the cash it has set aside to fix flats caught up in the building fire safety crisis, signalling that developers will have to dig deeper than anticipated...
...At their highest expression, jeans are Thelma & Louise Americana, Julia Roberts oozing 1990s perfection in the closing scenes of Pretty Woman, a basket-toting Jane Birkin in flares....
...Crest Nicholson, a FTSE 250 builder, said it would set aside between £80mn and £120mn for alterations to any of its mid-rise buildings that required fire safety work — substantially more than the £47.8mn...
...Nicholson’s, the pub’s owner, please take note: punters expect better after paying the best part of £6 a pint....
...In 1920 Nicholson married Winifred Roberts, a successful painter of plants and flowers; the couple had three children....
...Postwar works of note include an early, jazzy work by Robert Ryman (“Untitled”, c1963, $28m) and a majestic 1974 work in pink fluorescent light by Dan Flavin, which sold from the Unlimited section for large-scale...
...The brand is also known for its loud patterns, which have been worn by everyone from Jack Nicholson to Prince William....
...“Thanks,” says Nicholson, “but how about we skip coffee?...
...By contrast, “the level of competition and distrust in non-family businesses is seriously problematic”, says Nicholson....
...Presented by Robert Nicholson, this is not so much about sporting achievement as the ways that sport can be a catalyst for change....
...yourself in a beautiful 1950s boardroom by Hugh Casson and Misha Black, on one side facing an elevated roof garden with a magnificent reclining figure by Henry Moore and, on the other, a monumental Ben Nicholson...
...Panmure Gordon analyst Robert Plant said the bid interest in Sanne followed a trend of increased appetite among private equity buyers for corporate services companies such as such as Equiniti and Aggreko...
...What type of animal appears in the title of the first book by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for J K Rowling) — and the first film for which Jack Nicholson won an Oscar?...
...It’s a sentiment that’s also shared by the interior decorator and antiques dealer Robert Kime....
...There is no shortage of actors getting a shot at singing in Robert Altman’s sprawling, messy 1975 movie Nashville....
...Robert Saunders Balcombe, West Sussex, UK...
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