Hints and tips:
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Local authorities will have to bid for the finance when their focus is on social care rather than on project proposals....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Meanwhile, demand for the first-response centres is growing....
...Indeed, 40 per cent of existing GP premises are judged to be inadequate and 70 per cent are too small to take on additional services, such as X-ray facilities, social care and pharmacies....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...Without care, an unhelpful jigsaw piece that prolonged the 1930s depression but was largely absent from 2008-09 — retaliatory trade protectionism — might just come crashing into place....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...“We did not negotiate collectively because there is no requirement to do so,” says Ray Bracy, a senior Walmart China executive....
...The walk-in clinic will be one-step up from a traditional GP surgery, with X-ray and radiology equipment, advanced PET/CAT scanners and on-call specialists available 24 hours a day....
...The US federal court for northern California is housed in a huge 1950s modernist office block in the centre of San Francisco....
...Drugs are commonly posted mislabelled as other products or wrapped in tin foil to conceal them from X-ray scans at centres such as Coventry’s postal sorting office, another venue for Operation Pangea this...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“It’s getting to the point where it is very hard to unseat Facebook,” Forrester analyst Augie Ray told me....
...Ray Kurzweil, one founder, is famous for his belief that artificial intelligence will outstrip human wit in the coming decades....
...“Ray won’t like it because he can’t kick me under the table.”...
...In August, eye care company VSP acquired Marchon Eyewear Inc for $735m. Fashion houses everywhere from Tom Ford to John Galliano, and most recently Tods, have signed deals to introduce the category....
...This includes the provision for Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a new scheme announced in the address of the President of India....
...Companies such as RediClinic are now setting up operations in city-centre drugstores across the US....
...I don’t care what anyone says, they look ridiculous....
...drugs for primary health care. They were commercially attractive but only modestly innovative....
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