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...Hector R Torres CIGI Senior Fellow, Geneva, Switzerland...
...Within a few days, I could describe the story of our newspaper’s signature colo (u) r. Within a few weeks, I started dropping phrases like “reverse ferret” into casual conversations....
...April 5 to 14; further information and tickets here Miami-Dade CountryFest, Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center, Tropical Park Two days of livestock shows, rodeo, music and food....
...During the year to March, it invested £341mn, in part through the launch of new programmes such as Future Fund: Breakthrough, a £375mn scheme that invests directly in R&D-intensive companies....
...When I think of them, I am reminded of a line from a nonsense novel I read as a child: ‘Lord Ronald flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode madly off in all directions.’”...
...Christine Hockley, managing director of funds at British Patient Capital, said the report showed that the UK had a lower proportion of VC deals and investment going into deep tech and R&D-intensive companies...
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
...Catherine Lewis La Torre, chief executive of its British Patient Capital arm, says that the bank’s core funds had invested more than £150mn in life sciences in the UK....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...Le Torre declined to comment on the probe....
...He continued Schlesinger’s strategic direction, and established the military-technological edge that Republicans credit to Ronald Reagan....
...The Cuban system is in slow-motion collapse, but Cuban biotech and pharma R&D has much to offer.”...
...That finally stirred a quiescent establishment, including President Dwight Eisenhower and the legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R Murrow, to fight back....
...It must have all the necessary tools to act during emergencies,” said Ernanti Torres, a professor of economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase chair in economics at LSE: The UK will lag behind other developed countries....
...If you are pushing a product or political message, you want R to be as large as possible. If you are fighting a virus, whether biological or electronic, you have to minimise R....
...Major pharma companies make about twice as much in profit each quarter as they spend on R&D....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase School professor, LSE: It will not regain its size....
...“But they would say: ‘I fixed that n****r something to eat.’” Wilma was at school with a man called Don Blankenship, who went on to become chief executive of Massey Energy, a coal operator....
...His old friend, R W Apple, used to say that McCain always flew by the seat of his pants, not always knowing on one day what he was going to do the next....
...California produced Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. But in the last generation, mass immigration and the Silicon Valley boom has turned the state almost wholly Democrat....
...Put in place under President Ronald Reagan in 1986, it sets a minimum of 20 per cent for a company’s tax rate, with only limited potential to use credits to reduce that....
...That is a legitimate worry: private equity has a history of reducing R&D when the debt loads are high....
...But the momentum significantly improved Republicans’ chances of pushing through the biggest change to the US tax code since President Ronald Reagan enacted major tax reform in 1986....
...Who Compass, tel: +1 212 913 9062 Torre di Civita, Ravello, Italy, €45m Where In Ravello, a town perched 365 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy’s Amalfi coast....
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