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...Spain this weekend proposed a law to introduce binding quotas for women in all listed companies and in its government cabinet....
...Xi has no equivalent formula to encapsulate the diplomatic U-turn that he has brought about in the past few years....
...This is obviously a huge U-turn for the president, who built his campaign around green energy transition....
...During World War II, the U.S government asked Americans to embrace ride-sharing in a bid to conserve precious resources like gasoline and rubber....
...At the top of the new Rosewood hotel in São Paulo is the penthouse that Tarzan would have built had he turned rubber baron....
...Avon Rubber, a company built on the west of England’s enthusiasm for vulcanisation, is leading the FTSE 250 gainers. It’s bought Team Wendy, a US company that makes helmets, for $130m....
...The last time I had a clear-out, I took a carload of excess kit to a professional online eBay seller called Stuff-U-Sell....
...The city authorities U-turned and never tried again; Beijing, too, seemed to accept it was politically unfeasible....
...The port of Antwerp grew to become the world’s second busiest after Liverpool, first because of Congolese rubber and ivory shipments and then because of the UMHK minerals....
...Remember, the central bank stepped in just three days before Barclays was due to pay its investors, which hardly smacks of a considered change of direction; more a handbrake U-turn that left black rubber...
...The jolt to the market came hours ahead of the opening of the National People’s Congress, China’s annual rubber stamp meeting of lawmakers....
...In grift, Nokia’s up a bit on a report in Dagens retreading speculation that the Finnish rubber-boot-turned-modem maker could be a target for Qualcomm....
...In fact, its website features an employee with his hand up a kitchen U-bend....
...Copyright Office did not rubber-stamp Craig’s copyright applications. The U.S....
...Her gearstick feels loose, like the leg of an overcooked chicken; the rubber around her steering wheel is malleable and disintegrating....
...It is that Unilever makes decisions that suit the top management, expecting shareholders to rubber stamp them later. Mr Polman talks a lot about Unilever’s duties to stakeholders....
...JV for €1.4bn (FT) China power company drops bid for U.S. solar assets due to regulatory hold-up (Reuters) Luxury hotelier Belmond to review possibility of sale (FT) Glencore sees few M&A opportunities...
...He is a shareholder in all the companies indicated....
...A bill on the EEC is set for approval by Thailand’s rubber-stamp Senate in the first quarter of this year....
...The junta’s rubber-stamp parliament approved the first reading in September and final approval by the Senate is expected early in 2018....
...Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s rubber plant in northern Brazil, failed spectacularly. The company’s professed motivation was not just “to make money, but to help develop that wonderful and fertile land”....
...Buy: U and I (UAI) Property regeneration company U and I is set to create greater value from its portfolio and the dividend yield is not to be missed....
...his company....
...This year, Starboard supported the Alibaba spin-off until it became clear that US tax authorities had not rubber-stamped the deal....
..., BP Marsh & Partners, Biotech Growth Trust, Brainjuicer, First Derivatives, International Biotechnology Trust, Photo-Me International, Plexus, S & U, Solid State and VP....
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