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Request creates tension between partners in landmark three-way combat aircraft programme
...By the time we leave her, she is alone again — after a failed love affair with the poet Cecil Day-Lewis — “waving a flame” beneath frozen pipes during that last bitterly cold winter of the second world war...
As airports get busier, Tokyo crash shows why many aviation experts believe it is safer to be in the air
Japanese company targets American market with its biggest-ever acquisition
...Additional reporting by Sylvia Pfeifer...
...The departure of members such as Aviva, NatWest, John Lewis and Vodafone has left the CBI in financial peril and bosses told its near-300 staff on Thursday that they plan to slash the group’s wage bill by...
A partnership set to be agreed this year marks a shift in the Asian country’s role in the global defence industry after years in the shadows
...The sale, said Lewis, had given the company a “nice cash buffer” to meet an expected margin call on the LDI in the coming week....
...Companies that quit following the recent allegations, such as Aviva and John Lewis, were not eligible to vote....
...He added: “We’re seeing really quality investment grade paper coming up for grabs . . . names like Heathrow, John Lewis, Gatwick, BT — solid fundamentals — to raise cash.”...
...Sylvia And then you get disconnected. [AUDIO CLIP OF DISCONNECTED CALL] Claer BarrettSo, Steve, I’m imagining that you hear similar stories to Sylvia’s from lots of other people you meet....
...“We should be open to the reality that China is also capable of technological innovation,” Lewis said....
...Hemingway was soon moving in a remarkable literary world that included Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Morley Callaghan, Gertrude Stein and F Scott Fitzgerald, all orbiting round Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare...
...John Lewis raised drivers’ pay rates by around £2 an hour over the summer, taking the average trucker’s wage to £45,000 a year, while Tesco and Asda have offered signing-on bonuses of more than £1,000....
...The IA’s alert comes just days after Glass Lewis said investors should oppose the award at BAE’s annual meeting on May 6....
...Two influential shareholder advisory groups, ISS and Glass Lewis, last week recommended investors support the takeover....
...Andy Vickery will replace Paul Lewis as global head of finance. Wilson and Vickery joined the law firm in 2003 and will be based in London....
...Sylvia Pfeifer in London 10....
...“It may be that Wedgetail would have won,” said Mr Lewis. “But it seems unsatisfactory that these deals are done on the basis of excluding viable alternatives from even being considered....
...Two influential shareholder advisory groups, ISS and Glass Lewis, have recommended that investors support the takeover....
...Julian Lewis, chairman of the Commons defence select committee, has strongly criticised the decision not to use the warship classification, warning that it undermined the government’s national shipbuilding...
...In the letter, which was sent last week, Mr Lewis pointed out that both Italy and France classified their equivalent ships as warships and decided to follow a single-source procurement process....
...Mercer, the investment consultant, has hired Sylvia Pozezanac as UK chief executive....
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