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...Bespoke tailoring – in London, at least – still has something of an image problem, conjuring images of grey figures in dowdy suits in mahogany-panelled chambers. The reality is very different....
...He led us down the backstairs, into a warren of rooms that smelt like they were underground. “It was like a horror movie down here,” he said. Anne Marie ran her hand along the stone wall....
...The dowdy brick building just north of Omaha’s centre was once a convent....
...The swaps market was, of course, the epicentre of those exploding “weapons of financial mass destruction”, as Warren Buffett famously put it, that blew up the global financial system....
...There was a time when Les Wexner, a shopkeeper in dowdy Columbus, Ohio, would slip out from his clothing store to sit down for a burger at lunch....
...John Dowdy of McKinsey, however, believes an outside perspective often helps companies stay alert....
...At The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos inherits the paper’s irreproducible competitive advantage of reputation and readership – the “moat” that Warren Buffett shrewdly identified in 1975....
...Those dowdy pigtails and shapeless sweats aren’t fooling anybody....
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