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Nepotism: harder than you think
...Take for instance Rollins, the Atlanta, USA-based pest control company (no relation to ATL throwback Rollin’)....
...Step forward CLS Holdings USA, which said in its results for the quarter to the (conventional) end of February last year: We had revenue of $17,556,406 during the nine months ended February 30, 2032, an...
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...The subsequent day, USA Today also offered a GDP/GDI spread take, writing [epic movie trailer voice]: There may be an explanation for why the U.S. economy has been remarkably resilient, growing briskly...
...bullishness on tequila: While Tequila has been showing early signs of a slowdown and potential signs of down-trading, we believe the category will continue to outperform the broader Spirits market in the USA...
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Nintendo’s USA wing, after some discussion about whether the kids in America would enjoy a slow RPG game, shifted the titles stateside and in other Western markets, as Red and Blue, in 1998....
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
A short, stupid proxy adventure
...Here’s a breakdown of the model: Here are those drivers, as ranked by 6,446 respondents from the USA, UK, South Africa, Netherlands, Brazil and Vietnam: We’re a little worried, seeing “a sense of mental...
...Tempur Sealy, which bills itself as “the world’s largest bedding provider”, is a Kentucky, USA-based purveyor of mattresses, pillows, beds and everything else you need to temporarily escape the torturous...
...Jonathan Ashworth, a shadow minister without portfolio who is due to be deployed to rebut Tory attacks, is stress-testing all of the policies to make sure they are politically viable....
...isolation, they indicate Doyle’s enthusiasm either for pizza, Domino’s Pizza or free Domino’s Pizza pizza waned during the second half of tenure: New chief executive Russell Weiner** (formerly president, USA...
...“[V]ery different” is perhaps shown better by this chart: Englander and Hewin continue (our emphasis): The Q3-2022 B-D adjustment added 294,000 NFP jobs....
...PagerDuty (January 24th, approx 65 sackings/7 per cent of employees) This company is far smaller than the others in this post, but we may never again see a public-company executive operate at this level (v...
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...Marcus, the consumer-finance platform of fellow Wall Street Category-V bank Goldman Sachs, launched a similarly competitive interest rate, back when claiming to have been paid any kind of interest was in...
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...Thank you all for your emails and thoughts, and as ever, you can reach out to me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading, a merry Christmas and a happy new year!...
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
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