Hints and tips:
...Kay and Cyril come to an agreement — a modest proposal — that on the day of Kay’s 80th birthday (she’s a year younger than Cyril), they end their lives together with a dose of Seconal....
...To bring emerging markets along, there needs to be better collaboration, said Kay Hope at Bank of America. Investors and underwriters need to work with development banks....
...Banks have changed since 2012-13, when Down and Kay left the financial sector....
...Christopher Preston Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK...
...johnkay@johnkay.com Letter in response to this column: Banks — by all means be boring and reliable but stay close to your clients / From Christopher Preston...
...Northern cities were once storied by Dickens, Lawrence, Priestley, but where are the novels of today about Preston, Nottingham, Bradford? Congratulations to the towns of the M62 corridor....
...Women compete too – the Big Rock match’s first female competitor was Mary Kay O’Connell, in 1940. Women often took over the ploughshare when the men were away or ill....
...Creative director Sharon Tanton says that if content “is ill-thought through, or shoddy, or pushy, your reputation will suffer. Rushing to produce ‘stuff’ . . . can be damaging”....
...Judges concluded that Ed Balls, the then education secretary, and the north London council had been “procedurally unfair” when they sacked Sharon Shoesmith three years ago....
...Sharon Dowsett: “I don’t believe in spending a lot on a cleanser; it is not on your skin for long enough....
...Parts that have done better – Manchester, Leeds, Wakefield, Warrington, Preston – tend to be well connected....
...Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly , by John Kay, Profile RRP£10.99 Kay is both a first-class economist and an excellent writer....
...The vast majority of church members are now on planned giving schemes, Preston says, contributing an average of £8.62 a week per giver....
...He personally made a phone call to her,” says Sharon Dullerud....
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