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...It is governed from what in today’s reality is still the Bloomberg HQ near St Paul’s, with the English parliament transferred to Warrington in Cheshire....
...It works with dozens of insurers worldwide including the UK’s Aviva, Geico in the US and Japan’s Tokio Marine....
...It’s all very colourful though. 5) Fern Labs Inc ($1mn for 5 per cent stake) There’s a company called Fern Labs Inc based at 280 Smith St, Farmingdale, NY 11735, United States, roughly in the middle of...
...An 1859 poster advertising the project compared its height favourably to St Paul’s in London, St Peter’s in Rome and the Great Pyramid in Egypt....
...WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an impromptu speech on the steps of St Paul’s in support of the occupation....
...Cities have always attracted artists and musicians. “I know I come from Woking/And you say I’m a fraud/But my heart is in the city/Where it belongs,” sang Paul Weller of The Jam in 1977....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...He will be speaking in London, Cambridge, Manchester and Bristol. For more information go to po.st/HomoDeusEvents Illustrations by Janne Iivonen...
...The British government’s Longitude Act of 1714 offered rewards for improvements in naval navigation and gave the world the marine chronometer....
...Some small operators, including St Louis-based Suddenlink Communications, which counts about 1m video subscribers, have dropped Viacom altogether....
...Yet these structures still dictate the public space and image of many African cities — indeed, they have survived partly because of the poverty and dysfunctional systems that surround them....
...Creativity, Inc , by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace (Bantam/Random House), is a great book for anyone interested in inspiring and managing creative talent....
...It offers a superbly written and rigorous analysis of what happened to the US financial system and of how policy makers responded....
...The Prince of Wales himself took a strong stand against tall, modernist buildings that might compromise a single sight line of St. Paul’s Cathedral....
...The buyer is Flir Systems, a $4bn Nasdaq-quoted company that specialises in thermal imaging and infrared equipment....
...“That kind of blame game is really wired into the human system.”...
...At the same time, trading - which is now dominated by rapid-fire computer systems - has become fragmented across exchanges and various electronic platforms....
...An international consortium of financial firms will inject capital for the deal, preventing Lehman’s assets from flooding the market in a fire sale....
...Its first deployment in Iraq was free of significant problems, says Mr Kenney, a former Marine helicopter pilot. The V-22 Osprey showed the advantages of its speed, range and noise signature....
...The class action alleges that MF “materially misrepresented” its risk management policies, procedures, and systems in documents issued in connection with its initial public offering....
...Stone will get a third star and become head of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North later this year, based in New Orleans....
...Holliday Jr., Chairman and CEO, DuPont, USA Kunio Ishihara, Member of the Board, President, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a...
...But Merck's reputation has come under heavy fire lately. Mr Frazier's job is dominated by Vioxx litigation and criticism that the company dragged its feet in withdrawing the drug to maximise profit....
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