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...Jonathan Dixon, secretary-general at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, told the Financial Times that while the sweep of private capital groups into the life insurance sector helped...
...For What It’s Worth, by Ballet Black’s Mthuthuzeli November, made zestful use of a high-kicking Mayara Magri and under-exploited soloists such as Leo Dixon — a vision in Yann Seabra’s fuchsia silk pyjamas...
...Kelly Wearstler Rotganzen Cracked Actor disco bowl, $16,000 Tom Dixon stainless-steel Bell table lamp, £240, harrods.com Los Encajeros linen Valver cocktail napkins, £58 for set of six, modesens.com Veuve...
...The “London” candle is still a core product for Dixon. Candles can turn a profit, but investing in them is a gamble....
...Lesser-known talents feature too, such as the writer and artist Renee Gladman, who was in the first We Buy Gold show....
...In Renee Cox’s self-portrait “Hott-en-tot” (1994), the artist wears prosthetic breasts and buttocks like armour as she confronts the viewer....
...Dixons and Carphone were worth a combined £3bn in 2014. The successor company is currently capitalised at around a quarter of that sum....
...Despite that strategy not panning out so well, partner Chris Dixon isn’t giving up, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...Dr William Dixon London SE18, UK Dr David Wilson Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, UK...
...Kevin Smith No, no. Alex Barker And this is where we want to introduce Visa guy number two, Kevin Smith. [MUSIC PLAYING] You heard from him in an earlier episode....
...One informal index of residents’ care for their town, noted by local activist Hilary Smith, is a reduction in litter. “Some of it is about people wanting to be more involved,” says Smith....
...Kevin Smith To differentiate yourself. Now you’ve got to do something different. Edgy, I mean, you know, keep it legal, but it’s got to be some different. Alex Barker This is Kevin Smith....
...Show stalwart Tom Dixon was also in reflective mood, looking back at a body of work presented as sculpture in collaboration with Sotheby’s at the neoclassical Palazzo Serbelloni, before launching his new...
...With thanks to our producer Anna Sinfield, executive producer Jo Wheeler, with research from Pippa Smith and Leigh Mayer and mixing from Alex Portfelix....
...Goldman Sachs partner Darren Dixon is leaving to start his own fund, the latest in a series of departures by the Wall Street investment bank’s already small pool of black senior bankers, per Bloomberg....
...“The way companies use space has changed,” Dixon told analysts on a morning call....
...“You’ve already taken the stance, the right stance, that private prisons and profiting from a legacy of slavery is bad,” said Renee Morgan, a social justice strategist with asset manager Adasina Social Capital...
...“Our average transaction value is a lot less and a lot of what we sell is not rated for VAT anyway,” he said, adding that the withdrawal of Dixons could result in more opportunities to win tenders....
...Lilah Raptopoulos I remember Lucien Smith with the fire extinguisher. Melanie Gerlis Exactly....
...Lulu Smith is our producer. Big shout-out this week to Neve Ro, our former intern who helped a lot with this episode....
...Topher Forhecz is our executive producer, and special thanks as always, to Cheryl Brumley and Renée Kaplan. Have a lovely weekend and we’ll find each other again next week....
...(Laughter) I mean, she has a very astringent sense of humour, which makes it much more interesting somehow that backstage, she’s got this shop shops or slightly Maggie Smith put-downs....
...Kieran Smith, chief executive of Driver Require, a recruitment agency, said official figures showed that the driver shortages were not just the result of EU workers departing the UK after Brexit....
...We have novelist Ali Smith and Monica Ali. We have therapist and friend of the podcast, Esther Perel....
...Katya Kumkova is our senior producer, Lulu Smith is our assistant producer. Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco, with original music by Metaphor Music....
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