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...I highly recommend a visit — and Scotland is a no brainer if you’re in the UK and cancelled foreign flights, lost luggage and general SleazyJet shenanigans are not your thing....
...The factory has shifted the area’s economy, said Austin Osborne, manager of Storey county....
...This concern was highlighted by the Los Angeles County Employees’ Retirement Association, the $58bn US pension fund, in January....
...This is going to be an American-run company, with our general manager living in Los Angeles.”...
...“Carmakers are increasingly viewing Norway as a vision of tomorrow’s car market,” says Christina Bu, secretary-general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association....
...“Disappointment does not begin to describe how we feel about shutting down operations in Austin,” said Chris Nakutis, general manager of Uber Austin....
...The best of the four, Tri-Continental, returned 45 per cent over the four years Mr Buffett had been investing, compared with 107 per cent by the partnership; by 1969, Tri-Continental had returned 200 per...
...● The $4.4bn Ventura County Employees’ Retirement Association has hired Dan Gallagher as its new chief investment officer....
...In California, the $2.8bn Kern County Employees’ Retirement Association has a 6 per cent commodities allocation....
...Andrew Burton, general manager, said: “They are lightweight…they do not corrode…and, most important, do have not value in the scrap market.”...
...Housing foreclosures are continuing, with the county sheriff’s office listing around 250 forced sales a week....
...Most managers have not asked themselves the question, nor do they have the tools to answer it....
...Eight out of 10 outside directors polled by the National Association of Corporate Directors said chief executives were overpaid....
...He had just lost out to Jeffrey Immelt in the battle to succeed Jack Welch as chief executive of General Electric. Six years later, the setback is starting to look like a stroke of luck....
...The experience is also a critical component of the Sephora cosmetics stores in New York City, Orange County in California, and Coconut Grove in Florida....
...The British Bankers’ Association, the industry trade body, is pushing banks to share positive or “white” data – information on customers’ general levels of indebtedness such as the amount of time they have...
...In 1996, the top company on the FT Global 500 was Nippon Telegraph Telephone....
...because the internet is in general less reliable than the public switched telephone network. Noting that ?an especially challenging security environment is created when new technologies are deployed?...
...The C698p is a tri-band phone with two high-audio speakers to provide improved sound for business calls, or for listening to music on its built-in MP3 music player....
...Employees don't have relationships with people, not even by telephone. Since they don't know people how can they deal with them?”...
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