Hints and tips:
...Every Vow You Breakby Peter Swanson, Faber £12.99/William Morrow $27.99 If you’re looking for the suspense techniques of Alfred Hitchcock translated to the page, Swanson’s your man....
...Clayton Williams....
...At the beginning of this 1951 play by Tennessee Williams, the heroine Serafina seems doomed....
...William Swanson of Raytheon: “We’re a company that does the open kimono here.” Whatever your view of the metaphor, at least we can agree with the message. The executives are all pledging transparency....
...Trefor Williams works for Diligence, a corporate intelligence firm whose smart London offices he has decorated with James Bond posters. Williams is muscular, with a lilting North Wales accent....
...Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth, by Paula Byrne, William Collins, RRP£20, 352 pages...
...The moment comes early in the movie when Gloria Swanson, playing an ageing actress, meets William Holden, a young screenwriter. “I know your face,” he says....
...“Overall, the businesses performed well in the quarter,” William Swanson, chief executive, said. The shares rose 0.85 per cent to $55.62....
...William Swanson, chairman and chief executive of Raytheon, said on Thursday he thought consolidation in the European defence industry could create opportunities for US suppliers, by forcing their competitors...
...Over the weekend, San Francisco Fed president John Williams touched on this idea in his interview with Robin Harding when he mentioned the idea of “open-ended” quantitative easing (see also Tim Duy)....
...“Our technology and innovative solutions are well aligned with our US and international customers’ evolving priorities,” said William Swanson, Raytheon’s chairman and chief executive....
...“Raytheon had a successful 2008 with strong bookings, a record backlog and solid growth in sales and operating income,” said William Swanson, Raytheon chairman and chief executive....
...Swanson, who quit the Sprint Nextel board: “Many cite the economy-induced pressures of their day jobs as their reason for leaving.”...
...But as Beauchamp shows, Joseph was a steelier Titan than most: ruthless, power-focused, womanising – silent star Gloria Swanson was his lover – and shrewdly swift to move on from Hollywood after making history...
...He didn’t have to fool about for long, as the rapper Pharrell Williams (of N.E.R.D. and the Neptunes) quickly acquired the piece, “Gigantic Plush Flowerball Small”, for a cool $70,000....
...Raytheon refused to comment but speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference last year, Raytheon chief executive William Swanson sounded confident....
...In 2005, when Business 2.0 magazine reported on a pamphlet being circulated by the chief executive of Raytheon, William Swanson (“Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management”), it emerged that much of this text...
...A few years ago, William Swanson, head of the world’s biggest missile maker, sat down to write a little book containing the secrets of his greatness. There is nothing unusual about this....
...William Swanson, chief executive of Raytheon, has been censured by his own board after his free booklet, Unwritten Rules of Management, turned out to overlap with W.J....
...She had called to ask if she could bring her son William, whose father is Blunkett (though she didn’t come in the end)....
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