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...Co-chief executive Ted Sarandos once said it was based on “70 per cent gut and 30 per cent data. Most of it is informed hunches and intuition.”...
...They can co-operate, but they can also compete. What does all this mean for today’s war? Less predictable outcomes for starters....
...The writer is co-founder and principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a consulting firm Roman roads, Chinese gunpowder, British steamships, repeating firearms: great power competition has always been...
...The market-movers of 1896 had solid, descriptive and quietly flag-waving names like Standard Rope & Twine, Pacific Mail Steamship and the North American Company....
...Palmerston himself had claimed more than once that these insidious ambitions had been made possible by modern steamships, which had “turned the Channel into a river” and “thrown a bridge across it”....
...Globalisation avant la lettre was different in many ways: telegraphs and steamships were the technologies shrinking the planet, for example, and it was China’s precipitous fall rather than dramatic resurgence...
...‘No longer here and not yet there’ In 1934, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “on the long-roofed steamship piers one is in a country that is no longer here and not yet there . . ....
...Activists and lawyers seeking reparations from Japanese companies for other Chinese citizens said the fight over the Chen money was as unusual as Chung Wei Steamship Co’s original claim....
...Asset Match’s system has been used for private company investments from the 95-year-old Isles of Scilly Steamship Company to BrewDog, the “punk” beer maker that has crowdfunded at least £10m of investment...
...Details Ian Thomson was a guest of Cunard (cunard.co.uk)....
...Similarly, after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the Group of 20 leading nations, Financial Stability Board, the Basel Committee and other international regulatory bodies convened to provide a co-ordinated...
...The Chen family, heirs to Chung Wei Steamship Co, have pursued their commercial case for decades in Tokyo and Shanghai....
...The court said Chung Wei Steamship Co no longer existed. The brothers – who operated a small trading company importing toys and wine to Shanghai – registered a company in Hong Kong under that name....
...The case is a rare victory for the descendants of Chen Shuntong, the owner of Chung Wei Steamship Co, who lost his fortune in the war....
...“He made me the president of Canada Steamship Lines when I was 33,” Mr Martin, 75, said on Wednesday....
...In July, Sanko Steamship filed for bankruptcy with $2bn of debt – a victim of shipping oversupply, rising fuel prices and declining freight charges....
...Shipowners worldwide could be facing the biggest single default of the global shipping crisis after Sanko Steamship, one of Japan’s largest privately held shipping lines, asked owners of its more than 150...
...Sanko Steamship, one of Japan’s largest shipping companies, is meeting international creditors in London on Monday to discuss its restructuring plan after it filed for bankruptcy and stopped paying full...
...Named after a steamship that used to ply the local waters, Gorgon will cost A$43bn ($44bn) to develop and once fully operational will produce 15m tonnes a year of liquefied natural gas – equal to eight months...
...They’re like a steamship, not very flexible. We’re used to going pretty fast. Second is that we just didn’t want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors.”...
...It was £80m down the Swannee. Not a great business decision.”...
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...We do well to study driving for the same reason that captains of mechanised steamships, until well into the last century, studied sailing....
...He planted himself in the customers’ room of Harris Upham & Co....
...She was launched in 1869, but after the opening of the Suez Canal that year, the lucrative trade was quickly taken over by steamships, and Cutty Sark only carried tea until 1877....
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