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...Drawing on JRR Tolkien and the 15th-century Wars of the Roses, among other fictional and historical touchstones, it conjures a pre-bureaucratic world in which politics operates primarily through subterfuge...
...“References to cultural touchstones in the manifesto are meant to gain the attention of the media in the hope they’ll be taken at face value....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...It is the new touchstone for how Apple’s hardware, software and silicon can combine to create features that other smartphone makers cannot....
...Disney’s Marvel Studios, is heading towards $1bn in global ticket sales thanks to the rapturous embrace of critics, audiences and the African-American community, for whom it has already become a cultural touchstone...
...The requirement has become a touchstone for Silicon Valley’s fears about spreading internet censorship....
...Touchstone, the publisher of Mr Lefevre’s book, which has the tentative title Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance and Excess in the World of Investment Banking, told Dealbook that the uncovering of...
...A $1bn Texaco financing deal that he led in 1984 is still seen as a touchstone eurobond deal for its scale and the ambition of its global distribution....
...In the first concrete steps by the west to penalise Russia the US issued visa bans on Russian officials and the EU agreed to sign key parts of the integration agreement with Kiev that was the touchstone...
...The Manhattan accessory retailer Jack Spade was acquired by Liz Claiborne (now Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc) in 2006....
...They are reverential towards a period of musical innovation that will never go out of fashion; it is a touchstone for our deepest cultural aspirations....
...Abacus has come to be seen as a touchstone for the kind of double-dealing that critics have accused Goldman in particular of engaging in....
...Another example of such a strategy is Touchstone Investments’ acquisition of 17 funds and some $2bn in assets from Old Mutual Asset Management in April....
...The largest increase, in dollar terms, was, at 297 per cent, in Venezuela – hardly regarded as a touchstone for finance friendly policy....
...Use a touchstone that describes the business’ direction – a set of objectives, a board presentation, or business key performance indicators – to provide scope and structure to the innovation team....
...The outcome will be a touchstone for hopes of a revival in US industrial employment. In reality, GE has not been a big job-cutter....
...Elsewhere, Touchstone Gold jumped 4 per cent to 19.4p after increasing its exploration land holding in Colombia through the acquisition of the Santa Rosa Project, which lies near to where the mining company...
...Touchstone Gold , the latest vehicle of Kinross Gold Corporation founder Robert Buchan, added 7.2 per cent to 22¼p on the back of positive results from an exploration programme on the Rio Pescado gold project...
...First published in Edinburgh in 1786, more than 7m sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica were printed, becoming cultural touchstones as knowledge was democratised through the 19th and 20th centuries....
...It seems an odd choice of political touchstone and an idiosyncratic model for modern management....
...“Rehypothecation” – the practice by which prime brokerages would lend out again securities that clients had posted as collateral, in order to earn more money, became a touchstone issue for the hedge fund...
...Ease of use and quality of service are the touchstones in his universe – even if that comes at the price of less choice. Wu has an answer to the risk of a return to less open networks....
...The latest executive shuffling comes as MySpace, once a cultural touchstone that made internet social networks a household name, has fallen far behind rival Facebook....
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