Hints and tips:
...Marks and Spencer introduced its first packaged sandwich — salmon and tomato — in 1980. Pret A Manger was founded in its current form in 1986....
...“There’s the Blade Runner-esque landscape of Vauxhall and then suddenly you’ve got this leafy square,” he muses. Despite encouragement, Cocker declines a glass of wine: “I don’t drink in the day....
...Rolls says only one major design fix is remaining, a new blade for one variant of the engine....
...It is the first BYD model to use the company’s recently developed “blade” battery, a smaller and more energy-dense power pack....
...But good news for those seeking profit growth from Marks and Spencer....
...These include the powder coatings applied to turbine blades of jet engines; mobile phone parts; and the urine of 23,000 dentists, which it tests for exposure to mercury....
...But there wasn’t a blade of green; nothing grew from this hard land. Now, it’s foodie heaven....
...His annunciation is the outcome of a process as meticulous and intensive as the manufacture of a composite fan blade for one of its aircraft engines....
...The last segment, “Course of Empire,” includes images of the burning World Trade Center and Edward Ruscha’s Blade Runner-like vision of “The Old Tool and Die Building”, emblazoned with Korean and Chinese...
...“They [QPR] don’t own a blade of grass on Old Oak Common,” said Mr Mendes, adding that a football stadium in the middle of the site would “sterilise” the area....
...“No, you can be entrepreneurial in the FTSE 100 — look at Icap’s Michael Spencer or Carphone’s Charles Dunstone.”...
...The blade skidded across the palm of my right hand, opening a 3in wound below the fingers....
...“I have no ethical problem with it,” declares Spencer....
...gone mad and died, chimes with 1930s surrealism and anticipates 1960s Flower Power but, above all, looks back to Victorian techniques and compositions: in the emphatic, dry particularity with which every blade...
...A day earlier, Marks and Spencer had delivered a profits warning. Overall, the FTSE All-Share general retailers index is down nearly 14 per cent in a fortnight....
...Drinkers are not yet forgoing their favourite tipple and drivers who can afford to fill their tanks will continue to buy new wiper blades too....
...Fergus Wilson, a consultant at Spencer Stuart, the executive search firm, says: “They are the last bastion of ‘jobs for life’....
...The wettest June on record has been good for Halfords, as motorists replaced their wiper blades, but has hit sales of outdoor products at B&Q....
...When he asks Spencer from Oldham what “personal lessons” he learned from his time in the gangs, the question goes over his head. “Stick to dark clothing,” says Spencer....
...Naturally golf is the principal networking activity. ”Every single blade of grass has been carefully planned,” says Kaul, as we glide in his golf buggy towards the first of 18 holes....
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