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...about modern political leaders and events, first with Nixon in China, then, controversially, a Palestinian hijacking in The Death of Klinghoffer and, more recently, the testing of the first atomic bomb by J...
...J&J has denied its talc contains asbestos and can cause cancer. This isn’t Jones Day’s first rodeo....
...The US retailer may have been running out of options, after a sale to J Sainsbury was blocked by regulators....
...Nearly a century later, the process was repeated even more bloodily with Julius Caesar....
...(Current owner Walmart, blocked by regulators from selling it to rival J Sainsbury last year, wants out and is running out of options.)...
...He was part of a team that invested in Caesars Entertainment, where creditors secured a $6bn settlement pursuing fraudulent transfer claims against the casino chain’s private equity owners....
...Tesco sales fell 0.6 per cent on a slightly improved market share, while J Sainsbury’s sales fell 0.2 per cent with a 5 basis point share gain....
...Perhaps the most notable case was J Crew, the US fashion chain, which shunted $250m of intellectual property to a new subsidiary out of the reach of senior creditors in 2016....
...Caesars, J Crew, Sears, Toys R Us and iHeartMedia are just some of the examples in recent years where pre-bankruptcy wheeling and dealing left creditors cold and looking for vengeance....
...Julius Caesar was renowned for his clarity in writing, perhaps born out of his experience as a military general....
...It’s far from unusual to stage a J.M. Barrie revival for Christmas; what is uncommon, however, is to choose this one....
...round-up French insurer Axa takes full control of Chinese venture (FT) SoftBank relaxed about price of India investments (FT) Learning the lessons of GE’s steepening decline (FT View) WPP to merge J...
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...Martin Scicluna is set to become the new chairman at J Sainsbury, the UK supermarket in the process of taking over Walmart-owned Asda, according to an FT report....
...The J Coin would be convertible into yen on a one-to-one basis, operating via a smartphone app and using QR codes to be scanned in stores....
...The president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. duly laid all dictatorial parallels to rest by saying they had made “a great call” on Twitter....
...Recent fights at private equity deals gone bad like Caesars, J Crew and iHeartMedia, have turned nasty. Only a miracle will prevent hell from being unleashed when the next bankruptcy wave comes....
...Central to the cast are Daniel J. Watts and Roslyn Ruff as a couple torn apart by their country’s inhumanity....
...The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC had indeed jolted the Roman world. And the dissolution of the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Lepidus and Marc Antony portended greater strife....
...At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the stars are out in force: Will Smith, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Russell Crowe and, by video-link, Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel....
...Galerie J Kugel Brothers Nicolas and Alexis Kugel are the fifth generation of dealers who began trading in the late 18th century in Russia....
...David J Critchley Winslow, Bucks, UK ——————————————- Letter in response to this letter: Parallels that will keep the tabloids happy / From George Horsington...
...It also has had a string of investments in entertainment and leisure businesses such as Legoland, Seaworld, Caesar’s casinos and Hilton Hotels, which this month set a record for hotel listings with a $2.35bn...
...The fate of gaming company Caesar’s (the former Harrah’s) is still not assured. It is marked at 30 cents on the dollar, according to material supplied to investors at the end of the second quarter....
...Harrah’s, now called Caesars Entertainment, increased its customers’ ‘share of wallet’ by offering a Total Reward card that enabled it to track customers’ purchasing patterns and thus continuously refine...
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