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...None more so than the venerable De L’Europe, which has stood at the confluence of the Amstel river and two canals since 1896 and is just completing a five-year renovation....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Thanks to Monet, the British art historian Kenneth Clark said, “every day we pause with joy before some effect of light which we should otherwise have passed without notice”....
...Then there were TV shows such as General Electric Theater, presented by one Ronald Reagan....
...Ronald Reagan believed the nine most frightening words in the English language were: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Group trading update, EDF H1, Elementis H1, Ford Motor Company Q2, Foxtons H1, Frasers Group FY, Geox H1, Hammerson H1, Inchcape H1, Informa H1, Intel Q2, ITV H1, Jupiter Fund Management H1, Kering H1, L’...
...These are the components of the Granolas: GSK, Roche, ASML, Nestlé, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, L’Oréal, LVMH, AstraZeneca, SAP, Sanofi. Trips off the tongue, right? Granolas....
...Christmas tree candelabra from Montes and Clark, £38 Handmade in Oaxaca from embossed tin. montesandclark.com Aria glass by Laguna~B for The Conran Shop, £99 Made in Murano, in a range of colours. conranshop.co.uk...
...“Next slide, please” by Claire L Evans in the MIT Technology Review also charts the moment when PowerPoint changed everything: the person giving the presentation could also prepare it....
...Although I wasn’t persuaded by trompe l’oeil trousers painted to look like jeans, because ultimately, they still look like unflattering “dad denim”....
...Walden Macht & HaranO: 6; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 21The firm represented Ronald Streck, a whistleblower against pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly, in a series of successful False Claims Act lawsuits....
...Read on for why boards and executives need to oversee corporate culture as well as the P&L, and in Office Therapy I advise a worker without children doing a lot of extra cover for the mothers on her team...
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Such was the profusion of advertising talent that in the late 1940s, future novelists Joseph Heller and Mary Higgins Clark briefly worked for the same New York agency....
...£29.25 Haynes Hanson & Clark Marrone 2018 Barolo 14%Very energetic! Long and lively....
From the power of radical positive action to moral responsibility and a child’s perspective — a round-up of the latest works addressing the challenge of our time
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...When l made the point to her about coping so well, she answered, ‘well l work for a **** company where nothing works, so I’m used to broken equipment and being stress-tested by game-playing stupid senior...
...£34.95 Mr Wheeler, £37.70 Haynes Hanson & Clark Lancelot-Pienne, Accord Majeur Brut NV ChampagneAmbitious, interesting wine for the money....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark (Allen Lane) Clark charts the emergence of a new Europe in an exhilarating reappraisal of 1848 — one of the most dramatic and...
...The nightmare of modern air travel Air travel is the only form of transport to have gone backwards over the past 20 years, writes Pilita Clark. Trains go faster. Buses pollute less....
...William Diaz, a leader of Florida’s Venezuelan community, has long kept a copy of Ronald Reagan’s final speech on his phone....
...Pilita Clark looks at dishonesty at work. Are you up to date with the news? Test yourself with 10 questions....
...Even if I couldn’t always hear the waiter or indeed my guest over the band’s lively rendition of “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano”, the razzmatazz worked its magic....
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