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...This acts as a disincentive to keep control of costs, as the chair of HS2 Jon Thompson told lawmakers this month....
...The late Giles Gordon — Scotland’s top literary agent, whose clients included Fay Weldon, Vikram Seth and Peter Ackroyd — briefly represented him at the end of the 1990s....
...The expressions of terrified disbelief on the faces of Micah Balfour’s confident Hastings and Jamie Wilkes’s smoothly ambitious Buckingham, when they realise the axe has fallen on them, are those we see...
...Vikram Seth adds meat curry and rice to a menu of cream of asparagus soup, fried fish, mushroom vol-au-vents and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce in A Suitable Boy....
...might just be classed as securities On Wall Street: Wall Street’s leveraged buyout profits are on thin ice Stress points being felt in financial markets today could intensify as fees evaporate Lex: Balfour...
...And can you imagine a rerun today of the 2013 Oscars, hosted by comedian Seth MacFarlane, who opened with the song “We Saw Your Boobs”?...
...But Balfour has also benefited from recovery in the US and UK economies....
...Mr McLachlan moved to the £263bn asset management arm of Aviva, the UK insurer, from Balfour Beatty Investments....
...Mr Noah and fellow hosts Seth Meyers, Bill Maher and Larry Wilmore have also landed interviews with presidential wannabes....
...Balfour Beatty didn’t disappoint when it came to the revaluation of its public-private portfolio which as expected rose sharply upwards....
...“Back in the day, everybody who worked and voted was part of the studio system and they belonged, they all had affiliations to one studio or another,” says Anne Thompson, editor-in-chief of a film industry...
...Earnings Jardine Lloyd Thompson FY 52.68p (50.20p) Meggitt FY 36.24p (35.70p) Moneysupermarket FY 11.02p (9.18p) Regus FY 7.65p (5.20p) RWE FY €3.91 (€4.00) Serco Group FY 39.44p (41.56p) ● Adidas...
...Shares in Balfour Beatty were up 1.7 per cent to 299.3p in morning trading....
...Balfour spoke of adjusting to a post-Olympics world when delivering results, but the pressures facing the builder of the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Games have been around longer than a few days....
...Earnings 4imprint Group FY 22.43p (34.64p) Ashtead Group Q3 4.25p (2.6p) Deutsche Post FY €1.28 (€1.21) Jardine Lloyd Thompson FY 51.46p (45.3p) John Menzies FY 72.16p (71.2p) John Wood Group FY $0.85 (...
...Shashi Seth, previously head of search, will assume control of a “connections” division, giving him responsibility for all the company’s communications services as well as search....
...▲ Penthouse, New York City, US, $12.7m Where On Thompson Street in SoHo, downtown Manhattan, about 18 miles or 30 minutes’ drive from JFK international airport....
...- Balfour Beatty announces it has acquired parts of Rok’s business for £7m — statement....
...David Thompson, the curator, describes it thus: “It has a quarter and full hour striking clock which is to be wound every 24 hours....
..., Balfour Beatty, Costain, Kier, Braemar Seascope, Royal Dutch Shell, Zetex, Alexon, Unilever, McCarthy & Stone, Rentokil Initial, Galliford Try, SABMiller, Menzies (John) and Persimmon....
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