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...Wood is midway through yet another turnaround after the calamitous 2017 takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler. It is a troubled mid-cap, with a market value of £971mn and negative free cash flow....
...Descriptions of them by Martinson and her sources vary from eccentric, tax-shy wheeler-dealers to dapper, ballroom-dancing gentlemen who took care of their friends, loved their mum and who gave generously...
...nathalie.thomas@ft.com...
...Walter, a German national who oversees risk supervision at the ECB, will join Finma from the start of April....
...helen.thomas@ft.com...
...Hot skies and glamorous locations are just the thing for the never-ending season of drizzle and chills we’re experiencing in the UK, and Vanessa Walters’ adult debut The Lagos Wife (Hutchinson Heinemann,...
...Thomas Keneally has visited Mitchel’s life before in his 1999 non-fiction work, The Great Shame, which covered his transportation to Australia, along with that of Thomas Francis Meagher, the firebrand journalist...
...“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything,” Apple’s co-founder told the biographer Walter Isaacson about his counterpart at Microsoft....
...The FT’s Helen Thomas dissected the move neatly this week. Unlike eighties rock goddess Bonnie Tyler, I can’t say I’m holding out for a (new) hero....
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
...His ties go back further — Condo’s first job in 1979 was polishing the brass rods of Walter De Maria’s “The Broken Kilometer” (1979) in Dia SoHo, Morgan confirms....
...Job moves Swiss financial regulator Finma has appointed outgoing European Central Bank director Stefan Walter as its new chief executive....
...“What we are experiencing now is a watershed,” Thomas Haldenwang, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief, said in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine last week....
...Shares in Robert Walters dropped on Tuesday after the British recruiter warned that full-year profit would be below market expectations given signs of a slowdown in the jobs markets in several key regions...
...Instead, we begin our exploration of Scottish art with no fewer than three portraits of the novelist Sir Walter Scott and a vision of Scotland as it was projected from his imagination — tumbling burns, highland...
...The brothers’ company produced commercial and critical successes for another decade, including The Great Escape (1963), The Pink Panther (1963), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971...
...About £250mn was wiped off the value of these stocks following the profit warning from Robert Walters....
...Walter Scott, a director for more than two decades, died in September 2021, aged 90. In February 2022, Thomas Murphy, 96, stepped down from the board and died three months later....
...McCarthy notes that the first presidential election he ever voted in was in 1984, when Reagan won a landslide victory over Democrat Walter Mondale....
...As his admirer Sir Mortimer Wheeler used to recall, Curzon appointed Marshall in error, mistaking him for a namesake, but nonetheless, Marshall became a titan of archaeology at Taxila and other famous sites...
...) Helen Thomas made brilliant sense of the war waging between the European Union and China over electric vehicles....
...Their deaths, including Walter Scott, Thomas Murphy and David “Sandy” Gottesman, have forced Berkshire to bring in a number of new overseers....
...Elon Musk biography: Walter Isaacson’s much-hyped book is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of the tech entrepreneur’s work, writes Rana Foroohar....
...This was the vision of Walter Gropius, founder of the influential modernist art and design school the Bauhaus, who designed the Dessau “Masters’ Houses” in 1925 to fit his concept of gesamtkunstwerk, or...
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