Hints and tips:
...The US journalist Darrell Huff was not the only one who voiced doubts about harmful effects of cigarette smoking (“Statistics, lies and the virus”, FT Magazine, September 12)....
...For all his faults, Huff did not fail to ask the question....
...he says of his friend and fellow Rolling Stone, Keith Richards. “He says you can’t wear a mechanical watch near a [guitar] pick-up because it affects the sound.” He huffs. “No it doesn’t!”...
...From the first days of Huff Post, when we were five people, I would go buy everybody sweaters at Christmas. And we maintained that tradition....
...“I can’t get along with him,” she added with a huff of exasperation, “it’s like going through treacle.”...
...Although retail sales remained decent in July at least, Richard Chamberlain and Claire Huff at RBC point out a series of heightened risks to UK retail following the vote to leave the EU, with price inflation...
...Wesfarmers has not commented on the future of the UK investment plans although media reports said chief executive Richard Goyder deemed the sector “resilient”....
...RBC analyst Claire Huff says the business could fetch less than £100m....
...Mr Trump pulled out of the next Fox News debate in a huff while Ms Kelly and the network won plaudits for their stance....
...Richard Threlfall, head of infrastructure at consultancy firm KPMG, said the number and value of projects backed by guarantees had fallen significantly short of that expected when the scheme was first launched...
...When the British epidemiologist Richard Doll first began to suspect the link in the late 1940s, his analysis was based on a mere correlation....
...As investors huff and puff over the prospect and form of a break-up, they should consider the bigger picture that the board’s urge to demerge highlights: BHP is simply too big to manage as it is....
...After seven months of getting up before dawn to train, the fittest rowers from Oxford and Cambridge will, this Saturday afternoon, huff and puff their way from Putney to Mortlake in southwest London, watched...
...The FT’s James Politi and Richard McGregor interviewed Ryan in November last year, and found the Wisconsin congressman in pugnacious mood....
...After all, the consequences for the business will be disastrous if its leadership walks off in a huff. All this is perfectly obvious. It’s also almost certainly wrong....
...It is a tricky call and may explain why some Xstrata shareholders have already left the pub in a huff....
...Ephrem Ravi, at Morgan Stanley, says the discount is “too sharp,” while Richard Knights of Liberum Capital says it is “too extreme”....
...Tim Huff joins from Royal Bank of Scotland and Jonathan Guy from Investec....
...Richard Fleming, KPMG’s UK head of restructuring, described the move as a “commercial no-brainer”....
...Despite more than 20 changes of line-up over the decades, no one ever leaves in a huff; people tend, rather, to wander in and out of the group....
...It allowed me to huff and puff with indignation at what had happened. For a blissful few days, it kept some of those “Nightmare on Wall Street” stories off the front pages....
...Virgin Media, was created earlier this year after Richard Branson became its largest shareholder....
...It seems less likely that Bill Huff, the distressed debt investor and Virgin Media’s fourth largest shareholder, would be keen to roll over much of his 4.9 per cent stake....
...Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, the cable company’s largest shareholder with an 11 per cent stake, is expected to raise questions about the direction of the cable company – formed by the merger of Telewest...
...Bill Huff, who rebuffed Providence last year, has cut his stake to less than 5 per cent and lost some board representation....
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