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...National Grid has appointed Tesco chair Jacqui Ferguson to its board....
...Citigroup has hired Scott Bardo as a senior healthcare banker based in London. He was previously co-head of healthcare investment banking for Emea at Credit Suisse....
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...At Ronnie Scott’s, across two virtually uninterrupted sets, they exhibited the compressed energy of a band on the road....
...Niall Ferguson, predicts the fall of Britain. -- The curse of the girl boss. -- How the EU destroyed Italian democracy. -- China launches its digital yuan wallet apps for Android and iOS....
...Alongside them are a batch of lesser-known but veteran activists who have now struck out on their own after leaving larger firms: people like Scott Ferguson and Paul Hilal, two former lieutenants of Ackman...
...Sachem Head is led by Scott Ferguson, a protégé of Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman, and Corvex is headed by Keith Meister, who previously worked for activist investor Carl Icahn....
...But Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican, blasted it: “Making it harder for police to do their jobs to the best of their ability should be a non-starter, yet that’s exactly what the Biden plan does....
...Meanwhile, Scott Ferguson’s Sachem Head Capital Management, which manages some $3.2bn in assets, has suffered losses this month in the upper range of 10-20 per cent, said people who have seen the numbers...
...If this turns into a global pandemic, the industry may well lose billions of dollars — an impact that will have negative ramifications for the entire global economy,” said Scott Solombrino, GBTA’s chief...
...Here the gun was a Colt or a Smith & Wesson, the girl was a femme fatale; Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward or one of their ilk....
...They range from the forthcoming Doom, by Niall Ferguson, to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Cheer up: it may never happen....
...Scoreboard’s Sara Germano will hold a fireside chat with Scott O’Neil, chief executive of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, owners of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers....
...Their effort is being led by Tim Scott, the sole black Republican senator. Mr Scott was at Tuesday’s Rose Garden ceremony alongside Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican....
...“When he leaves it will be like when Alex Ferguson left Manchester United . . . It is impossible to overstate how BlackRock’s journey is the journey of a single man.”...
...But studio craft and jam session flow are equally well balanced and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s orchestral strings add class....
...“It is a matter of time,” said Mr Ferguson. “These businesses take ten or 20 years to become really disruptive . . ....
...In Doom (Allen Lane, May), historian Niall Ferguson asks why humanity is so bad at preparing for disasters....
...That had come in response to the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of teenager Michael Brown....
...Other top activists included Paris-based CIAM, one of the few activist funds led by women, which launched six campaigns; Sachem Head, run by former Bill Ackman protégé Scott Ferguson, which started five...
...declares Marcus Rashford on arriving ravenous — and a half-hour late — for our lunch at The Gilbert Scott restaurant in the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel....
...The Supreme Court also played a notorious role in enshrining the Jim Crow segregation of the south in its 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson ruling, which did so much to undo the results of Lincoln’s civil war victory...
...Richard Scott, naval consultant at Jane’s Defence, said the shipbuilding strategy was “more about sustaining a level of capacity and capability than to drive an expansion”, noting that the Type 31 frigates...
...Ferguson, the plumbing group formerly known as Wolseley, also has an update out today....
...It’s not been a surge, it’s been slow and steady,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist who was press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign....
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