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...Cameron also leads the advisory board for call-centre tech firm Afiniti, which has in the past also included former French prime minister François Fillon and ex-BP chief executive John Browne....
...Sylvia Carr and her mother have relocated to the wild countryside beyond Newcastle, and Sylvia bitterly misses her best friend....
...Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who founded the CTI 10 years ago as the Center for Work-Life Policy, said: “Increasingly when you’re working in at least some of these countries, the local culture is going in the wrong...
...Riverstone and five cornerstone investors have committed to invest an aggregate of £550m of which £50m will come from the private equity group, including Lord Browne....
...He left BP in 2007 shortly after Tony Hayward took over from Lord Browne as chief executive. Mr Manzoni had been considered a strong contender to succeed Lord Browne....
...Here is another analysis, this time by our former energy editor Sylvia Pfeifer: Just as nuclear power has its drawbacks, however, there are also uncertainties around shale....
...Lord Browne, former chief executive of BP – who is “lead non-executive director” in Whitehall – is a paid director of Cuadrilla....
...American Isis : The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, by Carl Rollyson, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 336 pages Fifty years after Sylvia Plath’s suicide, her myth lives on....
...It increases security, tax take, jobs and it might even reduce power prices,” says Lord Browne. “Nothing is perfect. This is pretty good.”...
...Under a secret plan to merge with Shell hatched by Lord Browne, who led BP in the late 1990s and early 2000, and his counterpart at the Anglo-Dutch group, BP would have sold the entire downstream division...
...When Tony Hayward was CEO during the last skirmish with BP’s partners, everyone said John Browne [his predecessor] would have been more adept at handling the situation. The same is true now.”...
...“Lord Browne when he was CEO offered us a route map which was very specific,” says one top 20 shareholder. “Investors need to know where the capital will be employed and at what terms.”...
...That his predecessors, Lord Browne and Tony Hayward, tried to reach the same objective and fell short makes his task all the harder....
...Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost History of 1970, by David Browne, Da Capo, RRP£14.99 Browne, an editor on Rolling Stone magazine, opens his account of 1970...
...Mr Haddon-Cave was commissioned by Des Browne, then defence secretary, in 2007....
...In the spring, Des Browne, Mr Hutton’s predecessor, launched an “equipment examination” in a bid to reprioritise the MoD’s spending commitments....
...Last spring, under Mr Hutton’s predecessor, Des Browne, the department launched an “equipment examination” in a bid to reprioritise its spending commitments....
...After a shaky start, Mr Browne has earned qualified support among the top brass....
...The contract, said Mr Browne, “ensures that we will have a Royal Navy fit for the 21st century”....
...Des Browne, secretary of state for defence, will chair the meeting....
...Des Browne, defence secretary, is set to order the review after acknowledging that the department must break the habit of putting off difficult procurement decisions in order to balance its budget....
...Des Browne, defence secretary, said that he had been assured that changes that had been made meant Nimrod was “safe to fly”....
...Des Browne, the defence secretary, will give his backing on Monday to a multi-million pound investment to upgrade the Rosyth dockyard in Fife....
...The £30m ($59m) contract, which was announced by Des Browne, the defence secretary, is for an initial 700 units....
...Union leaders claim they were assured by Des Browne and John Reid, his predecessor as defence secretary, that the MARS programme would be available in the first instance to UK shipbuilders....
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