Hints and tips:
...He was on the other side of the table, seeing the world through a builder’s eyes. And not just any builder....
...The builders are arriving. Indeed, by the time you read this they should be well under way, but we are talking about builders here, so best not to jump the gun....
...Paths of prickly thyme and musky sage peter out at naked beaches that are blissfully free of sunbeds and beach bars....
...Next to it, a churning pot of flame orange, Bamboozle, and a lively sage green, Whirlybird. I’m as excited about the new shades as the next person, but I made myself turn away and cross the road....
...The builder evidently has a sense of humour....
...Other Welsh quarries produce slates of willow, sea green, sage and bronze — old rocks are flecked with buttercup-yellow lichens....
...Mr Xi said Zhang was a “sage and role model” for China’s entrepreneurs....
...Builders may yet face price pressure from nervy buyers....
...It is to be seen everywhere: embroidered on linen, carved into wood and stone, etched into brass doorknobs and even printed in various colours on the T-shirts and shorts worn by the builders and the house...
...Sage subscription numbers look okay. ... Antofagasta Q4 production’s a bit weak. ... ‘Spoons sticks with guidance after like-for-likes slow again .......
...As the sage economist Henry Kaufman put it, liquidity used to mean cash in hand; now it means access to credit....
...Sage words indeed....
...Emma Dunckley EARNINGS Northgate FY 47.53p (50.00p) Rosneft FY $0.77 ($0.85) Topps Tiles FY 8.15p (6.87p) Shareholder meeting: Christian Dior, Wolseley Shake-up at Sage Sage will this week count the...
...For example, when life throws a variety of niggles at us all at once – things like relatively minor ailments, unexpected expenses, awkward neighbours, builders or colleagues – which may amplify each other...
...Financial software group Sage was 2.5 per cent lower at 389p back on the main index, while other mid-cap fallers included TV set top decoder maker Pace, down 4.2 per cent at 417.5p....
...The northeast focuses on software and health, driven by Sage, the FTSE 100 software business, and its universities....
...If Mr Pidgley is the quiet sage, Mr Morgan is the straight-talking builders’ builder. The Liverpudlian set up Redrow as a civil engineering contractor at the age of 21....
...Sage Group was up 3.3 per cent to 351.5p ahead of an investor day on Wednesday....
...“If you’re in a start-up situation, are you going to pay Sage a one-off £600, or us £15 a month? It’s a no brainer.”...
...Thomas Harrison, in old photographs, has the visionary look of a Victorian sage or prophet combined with the rugged toughness of a northern businessman....
...The Sage It has become a self-help saw that one way to achieve an ambition is to act as though you had already done so: to become a winner, act like a winner....
...The builders’ merchant has plenty of scope to boost profit margins back to pre-recession levels and consensus forecasts have yet to incorporate the acquisition of BSS, which is due to complete later this...
...David Goldman, founder, in Newcastle, of software company Sage, was also from Sunderland. But, for most Wearsiders, stability, not ambition, was the touchstone....
...Many of the aggressive business builders of the 1990s blew themselves up and, totally unexpectedly, Barclays clawed its way back....
...Or the planners, architects and sages given carte blanche to raise islands from oceans and plant tarmac in desert?...
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