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...Pilita Clark (Business Life, February 19) hints at uncomfortable truths behind employers’ attitudes to remote working....
...Vincent Van Duysen, architect and designerOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong It’s a beautiful letter from a son to a mother who cannot read....
...The evidence we have suggests that as an inflation hedge bitcoin is useless (Smales, 2021), mostly useless (Conlon et al, 2021), randomly worse than useless (Matkovskyy and Jalan, 2020), or consistently...
....” — Mike Clark, Oxfordshire, UK...
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...by margin calls in recent days would, in my view, plausibly diminish the chances of a V-shape recovery even should markets start to move in favour of their positions”....
...In two contrasting takes on the power of Amazon, Facebook, Google et al, politicians and legislators are also found sorely wanting....
...Trump et al v....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Good for drinking without food. 13% Telmo Rodríguez, Al Muvedre 2018 Alicante £11.95 Berry Bros & Rudd A powerful southern Spanish Monastrell (the same grape as Bandol) from low-yielding bush vines....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...A UBS report says the exposure of Intu et al to retailing is worse than suggested by the companies or feared by investors....
...(FT) Coaching v commanding Andrew Hill recounts how industrial group Linde won over sceptical staff in 2017 with a safety drive based on “active listening”....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Better alternative first steps are to prevent the audit firms from providing consulting services to any of the FTSE 100 companies, and for FTSE shareholders to encourage Grant Thornton, BDO et al to scale...
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Introducing performance to the museum space goes back at least as far as Kenneth Clark’s stint as director of the National Gallery in the 1930s and 1940s....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...It is tempting to hear echoes of Judaean politics — as imagined by Messers Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones, Palin, et al — in the proliferation of UK financial services bodies....
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