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...“Successful organisations will be those that look not just out to the recruitment market, but also among their own ranks,” says Sander van ‘t Noordende, chief executive of human resources group Randstad....
...“I like to call it the Rip van Winkle effect,” said Jeffrey Sherman, co-chief investment officer at $90bn bond investment house DoubleLine — a recognition that if you had somehow slept through 2023 in its...
...This artist I work with, Rick Lowe, we were in Venice this summer, and he said, ‘Oh I really want to try this Pappy Van Winkle [bourbon], it’s so hard to get.’...
...Winkles....
...In summer, look out for a Hocking’s van — they’re famous in North Devon for their clotted-cream ice cream....
...“This isn’t because there isn’t other American whiskey out there, it’s simply that Van Winkle is the most plentiful at the highest sustained price....
...This week’s FT feels like a Rip van Winkle experience in time compression....
...Much like Van Winkle, who awoke to an independent America, I have surfaced into a very different Washington to the one I left. People don’t talk about the president very much....
...Even today, long-aged Kentucky ryes such as Van Winkle 13-year-old and Sazerac 18-year-old can be incredibly hard (and expensive) to come by....
...“He’s like Rip Van Winkle,” says Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian, referring to the fictional character who falls asleep for 20 years and reawakens to a vastly changed world....
...Matthew G Hegarty and Karen Van Winkle President and Immediate Past-President, Harvard Club of Boston...
...A latter-day Rip Van Winkle has re-emerged after missing 75 coronavirus news cycles, Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation and the sourdough craze....
...(Think of Rip Van Winkle set in the WTO: we’re seeing Tim Burton directing and maybe Johnny Depp as the lead.)...
...Since returning to New York last year after a decade overseas the thing that has prompted a Rip Van Winkle sense of surprise is the speed with which pot has moved into the mainstream....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: The Harvard Club today is a thriving community / From Matthew G Hegarty and Karen Van Winkle, President...
...are: Maneet Ahuja David Buckmaster Christian Busch Neil Doig Muris Hadzic Andrew Leon Hanna Piyumi Kapugeekiyana Edoardo Maggini Michelle Meagher Joel Modestus and Sreevas Sahasranamam Colette van...
...Madrid is caught in a time capsule professing views long abandoned by its partners, says Mr Leonard, who likens it to the “Rip van Winkle” at EU council meetings....
...What prompted the gratuitous suggestion that it is “often derided as a clique of old boys content to puff cigars” I cannot fathom, unless, Rip Van Winkle-like, Lex has been in a deep sleep as regards UK...
...Winkle, this is undeniably true) and value-destroying takeovers (without question; the corporate graveyard is littered with their tombstones)....
...In 2015, Casper, the mattress company, launched a media offshoot called Van Winkle’s to “make sleep journalism a thing”....
...Finally, for any Rip Van Winkles who have been napping for the last two days, the FT had a huge story this week – our largest online hit ever....
...Their first successful prosecution will see a New Yorker sentenced in January 2018 for selling two bottles of fake Van Winkle for $1,500....
...The media came to goggle at what appeared a Rip van Winkle-like feudal throwback. Much has changed since then, and mostly for the better....
...Then, just as my soul drips despair, I’ll get a run of weeks when my sleep is as deep and vapid as Rip Van Winkle’s....
...Better certainly than to do nothing and — like van Winkle — wake up too late....
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