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...It has added a second hall, boosting the exhibitor space by 12,000sq m, and the number of brands has risen from 48 to 54, with Raymond Weil and Bremont among those joining heavyweights such as Rolex and...
...A rush of guests with complicated check-in demands, luggage caravans and whimsical complaints was handled with unflappable speed when I visited. I thought I’d be waiting for 30 minutes....
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...If it had begun “I still see him there....
...When asked in an interview with Robert Yates in 1996 what his family made of the images, Billingham said he’d wondered if they would perhaps force new insight, reveal themselves to themselves....
...Removals, flyering, paparazzi photographer . . . you name it, I’ve done it. But I’d always get fired because I’d only fulfil half of an instruction....
...“I never in a million years thought I’d find a gold hammered coin,” he says. “I was in disbelief when I first saw it in the hole....
...If they got too radical, they’d be replaced.” Scientists and politicians, not businesspeople, are the heroes of Robinson’s books....
...“If you’d said to me, think of the most crazy scenario of what could happen to Alex, I don’t think I would ever have said this was a person who could take his [own] life....
...Paul Raymond’s Soho is all but gone, but I think that he’d approve....
...In 2017, as part of the process of diversifying its income, the Charterhouse opened a museum; Laurie likes helping with tours, but wryly remarks, “I never thought I’d live somewhere with a gift shop.”...
...“I wouldn’t be a big buyer of banks . . . I’d be no better than equal weight.”...
...One of the things I’d say about leaving a big corporate job that you’ve been in for a long time is sometimes it’s described as a mini-bereavement....
...EB: Yes, I did a study with Lindsey Raymond and Danielle Li where we looked at the introduction of an LLM tool to help customer service agents....
...The master grower and breeder of clematis is Raymond Evison on Guernsey, whose nursery also supplies by mail order....
...I asked Reynolds if he thought we’d reached “peak” Portuguese wine. He admitted he didn’t know. “The diversity now is extraordinary — it’s slightly confusing even for me....
...“I had a job in a jobless time.”...
...Adam Tindle, of Raymond James, on Motorola February 2020 call....
...I found this out the hard way, and spent a woozy 90 minutes in a taxi instead. “I really didn’t think that you’d be here,” she says....
...Ordinarily, I’d be expected to buy fewer potatoes and more of something else. The problem is everything else was still more expensive than potatoes....
...Strafford’s relationship with his wife has fallen apart; Quirke is living with Phoebe, the daughter he’d abandoned as a child....
...“I’m not going to sit around and not take action because the responsible adults think there might be geopolitical consequences.”...
...Ajesh has also looked at the custom of going for dim sum in lieu of the Christmas meal: while he makes a stab at handmade dumplings, I think I’d rather eat the ones made at London’s A Wong....
...Sarah Jane AndersonIt was the most packed I’d ever seen one of those keynote speeches. Everybody sitting there talking like, I don’t know, I don’t know what he’s gonna say....
...I thought if you go to see Virginia Woolf’s house, surely you’d want to go and see the books as well?”...
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