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...Stephen Allan, former chair and chief executive of WPP-owned MediaCom, is chair of Brainlabs....
...“Both sides of the contract say the same thing: the drafter and the reader — i.e. Credit Suisse and the investors — are in agreement,” he added....
...“I had a dinner here once with Marsha Laufer, who’s probably the biggest Democratic donor in Florida, and I had her sit next to Thomas Peterffy,” he says....
...Dithering and indecision is the British infrastructure curse, says columnist Helen Thomas....
...It has since brought Informa chief Stephen Carter and France Televisions boss Delphine Ernotte Cunci into the mix....
...But Kitty Ussher, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, complained Hunt did not have any new policies to announce, saying the speech was “E for empty”....
...Stephen Bush Both, I think....
...Happily, the Frelimo slogan did go on to say: “Victoria e Cerba!”....
...The cheery, can-do General Motors engineer Thomas Midgley Jr is often described as the most disastrous peaceable human who ever lived....
...“[Start-ups] wanted to disrupt, but have no idea how to disrupt manufacturing technology,” said Karl-Thomas Neumann, a Polestar board member....
...This week it is the turn of the Philippines, where, in a “you could not make this up” moment, the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Jr, leads the race to be president, promising to restore...
...Source: “Dating Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010”, Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, Jason Lennard and Ryland Thomas, Economic History Review (forthcoming)....
...asks Richard E Grant in one of cinema’s most deathless lines.)...
...The most popular sectors where graduates are launching start-ups are in consultancy and e-commerce....
...Best Actor nominees include the late Chadwick Boseman for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Stephen Yeun (Minari)....
...And The University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is fantastic. It looks like a spaceship. fisher.library.utoronto.ca, canoerestaurant.com...
...Letter in response to this article: Britain needs to address its lack of tech champions / From James E Dodd, The Witness Corporation, London NW3, UK...
...Stephen Morris in London 17....
...Thomas Dyja’s book New York, New York, New York offers this summary of its recent history: “Forty years that favoured wealth and business.”...
...Stephen Phipson, head of manufacturers group Make UK, said that an immediate end to the JRS for industry would have “devastating effects on employment levels” in factories — leading to potentially hundreds...
...Stephen Garrett, executive producer of The Undoing and The Night Manager, describes Bier as “the most emotionally intelligent person I’ve ever met”....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...James Wilson’s The Green Fuse ponders Dylan Thomas evocatively and there is a heartfelt elegy in memory of Stephen Lawrence by Philip Herbert....
...The always sharp Stephen Roach seems to agree with my take that we are headed for a post-dollar world....
...Director Thomas Kail, musical director Alex Lacamoire and choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler have all collaborated with Miranda since they were students in the mid-’90s, beginning with In the Heights....
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