Hints and tips:
...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...In the morning John Butt and his Dunedin Consort travelled from Edinburgh to perform Mozart’s C Minor Mass, as finished by Clemens Kemme, and some Bach family extras....
...William C Martin, founder of investment fund Raging Capital Management, argued that complacency was the bigger factor in start-ups managing their cash irresponsibly....
...Lucy FisherAnd also Richard Moore, MI6 “C” — he’s had to resign in ignominy. Jim PickardSell them all! Lucy FisherWho else did you find?...
...And, C, it takes ages to do....
...Junior ministers such as Gillian Keegan, Penny Mordaunt, Lucy Frazer, Kemi Badenoch and Victoria Atkins should be promoted to achieve parity....
...According to Betsy Atkins, one of three female directors he brought in, Mr Maddox is “the reason I joined”....
...Hammerson boss David Atkins has some cause for cheer. Just not much. Everything has been collapsing around him: rent payments, property values and Hammerson’s planned sale of its UK retail parks....
...Cineplex’s shares have been trading well below the C$34-a-share offer price since mid-March. Spurned Cineplex plans to sue for damages....
...It has recently been used for the capital’s new £4.2bn sewer, which is privately financed but paid for by Londoners’ water bills; it may also be used for projects such as the Sizewell C nuclear power plant...
...Apart from negative l-f-l rental and value growth, we assume recapitalizations to an LTV of c.35% by 2021 lowering the EPS and NAV by c.49% and c.61%....
...Nestlé outperformed these companies in terms of volumes sold, according to OC&C, the consultants. The worst-performing food companies are in the US....
...Into his bag goes a second-hand paperback of John C Van Dyke’s 1901 The Desert. The cumulative effect of so much reading is an account of remarkable scope and depth....
...In the 1980s, when the prosperity gospel was starting to become big business, Jim and Tammy Bakker were jailed for embezzling millions of dollars....
...In the UK, ABB won a $130m order to provide power transmission infrastructure for the planned Hinkley Point C power plant....
...One said: “Of course there are a lot of expectations riding on this and it is going to be a big day for [chief executive] David Atkins....
...Revenue growth of the 50 biggest consumer goods companies has fallen steadily over the past five years from 7 per cent to minus 1 per cent last year, according to data from OC&C, the consultancy....
...Shares in Atkins are expected to be suspended from trading at 6pm on 30 June. SNC-Lavalin says it expects to realise C$120m of annual cost savings by the end of next year following the combination....
...In western Europe, just three plants are under construction: in the UK at Hinkley Point C in Somerset; at Flamanville in France; and at Olkiluoto in Finland....
...Here is an analysis of the deal by the FT’s Scheherazade Daneshkhu and Ralph Atkins....
...Politicians have babies too: Courtney Weaver writes from Washington about Tammy Duckworth, whose latest entry in the record books will be when she becomes the first US senator to give birth while in office...
...A man from Liverpool wrote into a society newsletter, asking what to use “for animal food — for tea, coffee, butter, eggs, milk, &c”....
...For example, Atkins Global topped the podium in the construction and infrastructure sector. OC&C was among the gold medallists in consumer goods and retail, and BAE destroyed all-comers in defence....
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