Hints and tips:
...I’ve mentioned twentytwentyone several times in my columns; it’s one of my reliable go-tos when hunting for contemporary furniture....
...Some people call it non-banking, but essentially companies that have vast, vast financial firepower now....
...Judge Sinfield was having none of it, citing the finest quote from the recent poppadom case, Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v HMRC: Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods “We agree,” wrote...
...“I am much less convinced about their reliability and ability to effectively handle a casualty if something goes wrong,” said Roppestad....
...Illustration is the beating heart of Folio – “we give artists free rein,” says Walker – and this year the company launched an annual Folio Book Illustration Award....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...For example, precision-guided missiles can be used to reduce civilian casualties — or precisely the reverse: to target hospitals or medical personnel, as the Russians have done in Syria and Ukraine....
...Signature’s sudden collapse was an early casualty of the turmoil now sweeping across the banking sector....
...Later, I walked a couple of miles west along the canal (meeting no more than three or four dog walkers on the way, all of whom, this being Yorkshire, said hello)....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...So the biggest beneficiary has been the old Deutsche business that is now owned by BNP, and to a lesser extent UBS,” said a London-based executive at a US bank....
...As ever, send your thoughts, queries and philosophical riddles to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com). Happy reading!...
...The old model of owning a whole vacation home is very wasteful and somewhat cost prohibitive....
...companies in favour of those that generate reliable profits....
...We see it in The Corn is Green, a revival directed by Dominic Cooke of Emlyn Williams’s play, in which Nicola Walker plays a groundbreaking teacher in 19th-century Wales (National Theatre from April 7)....
...RMR’s move into hotels was spearheaded by John Murray, a 61-year-old Long Island native with an accounting degree and earlier stints at EY and Fidelity....
...Some Nato countries have even begun to doubt that Berlin is a reliable partner....
...Conner hasn’t always been a dog walker. She used to be a support worker for a homeless charity, work she loved....
...But cost-driven decisions to outsource maintenance, buy old aircraft and provide less training came back to bite as the company gained a reputation for safety problems and union issues....
...In particular, Burden mentions the neon, gloss and pearlescent coloured frames created in collaboration with set designer Shona Heath for the Tim Walker exhibition at the V&A Museum last year....
...According to real estate services and investment company CBRE, prime rents for apartments in Amsterdam fell by 3.3 per cent in the year leading up to the fourth quarter of 2020....
...Yet the dabbawalas fear they may be permanent casualties of the economic upheaval wrought by the pandemic....
...Centuries-old national champions Barclays (€17.4bn), Deutsche Bank (€15.6bn) and Italy’s UniCredit (€17.2bn) are collectively worth less than Zoom, the $72bn (€61bn) videoconferencing company founded in...
...“With Bo, I got what someone once described as the only reliable friend a politician can have in Washington,” he writes....
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