Hints and tips:
...When I’m wakeful I need something to really concentrate on — something really good — otherwise my brain starts working....
...Nighy has more films coming up this year: The First Omen, a prequel to horror classic The Omen, released next month, and the Jack Thorne-scripted IVF drama Joy....
...Byng-Thorne became non-executive chair earlier this year. M&C Saatchi this month also blamed a challenging trading environment for a small decline in like-for-like net revenue for the full year....
...The announcement shows the extent of the challenges for incoming chair Zillah Byng-Thorne, the former boss of magazine group Future, who will start at M&C Saatchi this week....
...“I’m not really interested in that....
...As such, potential indigestion / objections from existing partners (including M&S) doesn’t seem that important to us....
...She’s expected to succeed Sharon Thorne, whose four-year term will complete at the end of May....
...“I’m thrilled to be back,” declared Cook, who despite US-China tensions was still welcomed as a corporate celebrity in China....
...“I always thought accountants and lawyers don’t make good CEOs but I’m eating humble pie,” he said....
...I’m such a fan of South African wine that I’d like everyone to appreciate it....
...I want them to think, ‘Actually, this network of animals in my city is completely continuous with the network that I’m part of....
...“I’m not afraid of you,” she resolutely informs a raging Tony, with Graham in full charging bull mode. But even Sarah crumbles under the onslaught of Covid....
...“I’m not someone who gets emotional very easily,” says Thorne. “But on the first day of rehearsal we were just talking and I found myself literally weeping in front of these people I didn’t know....
....£10 M&S Lubanzi Sparkling Rosé NV Swartland 11%Lubanzi is an admirable South African project that does its best to protect its natural and social environment....
...Even so, they may struggle to win over shareholders, who “aren’t rolling over” on low offers, said James Thorne, a fund manager at Columbia Threadneedle....
...I’m going to give you a paragraph or two where he’s a poor, neglected boy at school. You fill in the gap.’...
...Smart reads Talk isn’t cheap Spotify’s $230m acquisition of Gimlet Media — the “HBO of podcasting” — sparked an M&A frenzy for podcast companies....
...It is, Thorne tells me, the work of which his dad is most proud. Does he aspire to be like his father? “I try to live up to him and I can’t. I’m much more selfish. And I’m not strong like he is.”...
...Former HSBC general counsel of M&A Chris Thornes has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as consultant. Before HSBC he spent more than a decade at Allen & Overy....
...Mr Thorne said: “Good, I’m making a note of that.” Battle metaphors are common Linguists are also tracking the changing metaphors used to describe the crisis....
...The smaller Dorfman auditorium will host a version of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 1998 film After Life (from June 2), adapted by Jack Thorne....
...“I’m a first-generation student; I can’t rely on career advice from my family,” he says....
...Then there’s Zillah Byng-Thorne, the senior independent director, who was an advisor to the company for four years before joining its board in 2018....
...And the people who speak them are different Australians to the familiar ones I’m used to coming home to in summer — the tanned, sanguine mates sharing funny stories as the sausage sizzles....
...Giles Thorne of Jefferies is neither impressed nor particularly worried....
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