Hints and tips:
...Black screens on wheels shield secret projects at one end of the room. The dogs are in here too, dozing under workbenches and peering out of meeting rooms....
...A verdict against BioNTech would likely have limited direct financial damage on the company because of an EU legal shield that largely protected vaccine makers from legal liability if they caused unforeseen...
...But being a Taiwanese company does little to shield it from the latest US-China trade sanctions....
...Ubben’s appetite for Bayer stock might seem questionable to some given the company’s continuing struggles with lawsuits over glyphosate, a weedkiller developed by Monsanto that has been linked to cancer....
...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...Rather than fully absorbing their anatomy courses, medical students just need to master their keyboards’ CTRL-C and CTRL-V functions....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...Governments and central banks lack the resources to shield companies from further blanket lockdowns. From now on, choices over corporate and public health will be painfully counterpoised....
...Chart du jour: Reviving business European governments have spent huge sums to shield businesses from the pandemic....
...Europe will create thousands of “zombie companies” and lose competitiveness against the US and other countries if it keeps extending state aid to shield the economy from the coronavirus pandemic, Deutsche...
...Their megalomania-related functions — projecting corporate status and fostering group cohesion — shield them from big cuts....
...And given that Privacy Shield has been invalidated by the ECJ, it’s unlikely to consider a UK-US Privacy Shield II to be sufficient protection....
...“I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said. “I think it will be more like a U. The key thing is to shorten the lower part of the U . . ....
...Management wants to push forward with integrating Monsanto, despite the company’s poor public image and questionable practices....
...Alan Ruskin at Deutsche Bank argues that optimism in an eventual V-shaped recovery is “next to impossible when the real economy is only starting the downside of the V at a historic pace of descent....
...Ideas range from astronaut-style face shields to contraptions resembling sun visors....
...White v Panic should be overturned, so it cannot be used to shield boards that enable sexual predators. This is not just the right thing to do. It makes financial sense....
...And when we look back on the GDP charts years from now, we want to see this period marked by a sharp V....
...US business groups are calling on the federal government to shield companies from litigation if they expose employees to Covid-19 infection by calling them back to work before the pandemic abates....
...It is understandable that politicians have made little effort to shield financial services from the coming hit. A sector that has become associated with bonuses and privilege cannot really expect more....
...In 2016 the BoE introduced the Term Funding Scheme to help shield banks from the adverse consequences of a BoE rate cut to 0.5%....
...The credit protection trades — using derivatives tied to the perceived creditworthiness of corporate borrowers — helped shield Pershing Square’s $6.5bn portfolio from the US stock market’s fastest-ever bear...
...Rocket City is growing fast, as high-tech businesses — including Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company — cluster in, and those engineers need their craft beer and artisan coffee....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
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