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...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...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....
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...of the V&A And five for younger quizzers . . ....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...According to data from CB Insights and Willis Towers Watson, between 2012 and the first quarter of 2019, there were 627 deals involving investment in property and casualty insurtech companies....
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...Neither do we need to ponder the meaning of Father Dougal McGuire’s penchant for wearing a V-neck tank top over his clerical robes in Father Ted....
...“Our idea was that Big Brother represented the control of technology by the few,” Lee Clow, the ad’s creative director, said later....
...The V&A has been looking for a new director after Martin Roth, who is a German national, announced his resignation in September, a decision apparently prompted by his disillusionment over the British vote...
...Mark Quinn, a partner in the reward practice at Mercer, a consultancy, said many employees at bank-owned groups would feel “a touch wrongfooted” by the outcome of the Ucits V vote....
...Carl Sjostrom, director of executive reward in Europe at Hay Group, the management consultancy, agrees that regulatory efforts such as Ucits V will do little to address the underlying problem of short-termism...
...The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix , by James Watson, Simon & Schuster, RRP£19.99, 368 pages Watson’s 1968 memoir of his discovery of the DNA double helix with Francis Crick has become a classic...
...For me, the most unexpectedly moving round of applause at the Royal Opera House recently was for Ruairi Watson and his colleagues....
...the Partito Democratico and former Minister of the Republic (Undersecretary of State for Foreign affairs in 1996, Minister of International trade in 1998 and Minister of Justice in 2001) USA Richard V....
...Carl Hess, global head of investing at Towers Watson, says they should be looking at a wider range of issues....
...Online, my dear Watson. Online....
...“Default” – (v.) a failure to act; inaction or neglect. On the face of it, the term “default giving” seems an oxymoron....
...: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change, by Louis V Gerstner ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
...Jenny Watson, the commission’s chair, says the SDA was “a product of its time” that has now reached the limits of its usefulness....
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