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...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...
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...Travel spending by big US companies was “well over 50 per cent” of pre-pandemic levels in March, the chief financial officer of American Express told the FT last week....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...The hope underpinning the strategy is to “press pause on the economy, save lives, and then press play again”, writes Marcus Walker at the Wall Street Journal....
...(FT) Copyright special: France v Google France is looking to win the war of words with Google....
...J Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, wrote an open letter to the Academy to express his concern at their decision-making process....
...Reg Walker, director of security company Iridium Consultancy, who examines ticket sales data, is sceptical....
...Multibillion-dollar takeovers have been agreed between US health insurer Cigna and pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts and private equity firm Blackstone and data provider Thomson Reuters....
...The next day Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel, will testify before the intelligence committee, which is conducting one of several probes into Russian election interference....
...The then MP Tristram Hunt was heard to express his surprise — perhaps not imagining that he would be appointed director of that very institution within a matter of months....
...They suddenly have the ability to express their opinions to a much broader audience.”...
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...One view is that he is Robin Banks, who started as a graffiti artist in Bristol in the early 1990s, along with Nick Walker, who was later hired by director Stanley Kubrick to recreate the graffitied streets...
...Google Express, the company’s shopping and delivery programme, has just launched a $95 annual membership with free delivery of household items in seven US cities....
...Walker and other Neuberger management acquired a 51 per cent stake in Neuberger as a part of the Lehman bankruptcy. He’s also the second cousin of President George Walker Bush....
...How you express that in a quarterly report, of course, is another question....
...“In the US it is used by hairdressers or dog walkers,” he says. “But in India it is also large insurance or telecoms companies who are using it to come to your door and collect payments....
...Tucked away in a corner of Sheremetyevo Airport’s Terminal E, just to the right of Burger King, is an unassuming metal door which leads to the V-Express capsule hotel....
...“People don’t do that when they’ve just used American Express.”...
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
...Sacco’s work seems best suited to ground-level reporting in which ordinary people express their hopes and fears; it is less well adapted to the corridors of power, where useful contacts are harder to come...
...Speakers at the New York rally were quick to express support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been camped out in nearby Zuccotti Park for nearly a month....
...The third crash involved a Bombardier Global Express jet landing in high winds near a golf resort in Nova Scotia....
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