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Janan Ganesh
The humbling of the maths snobs
...If we consider, too, the dark, Kremlin-partial end of finance bro politics, these are the most embarrassing times for maths chauvinists since Robert McNamara, who even looked geometric and dug America ever...
October 20, 2023
Trade Secrets
The tricky task of turning the World Bank green Premium content
...Before Banga, who has a first degree in economics, the departing David Malpass seems to have been the only bank president with much formal economics training since Robert McNamara in 1968, and much good...
February 27, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Architecture
Kingston University Townhouse wins 2021 Stirling architecture prize
...Farrell and McNamara are globally admired and have remained unstarry, affable and thoughtful....
October 14, 2021
The Weekend Essay
The radical reinvention of the costume drama
...The Great, a comedic faux-history of Catherine the Great of Russia created by Tony McNamara, co-writer of the Oscar-nominated drama The Favourite, is unlaced in a different way....
January 22, 2021
Equities
Markets not live, Thursday 13th February 2020
...William Hill, GVC and Flutter are all falling out of bed on news that the UK’s gambling industry regulator will look at capping online casino wagers to match those in bookies’ shops: Neil McArthur, chief...
February 13, 2020
Theatre to watch in New York
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, Abrons Arts Center, New York — consistently hilarious
...The references to Williams also send up Who’s Afraid ’s debt to A Streetcar Named Desire....
June 15, 2018
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK economy
London black cab drivers plot £500m legal action against Uber
...Gavin Foggo, head of litigation at solicitors’ firm Fox Williams, said: “The cabbies have no obvious cause of action against Uber....
July 24, 2018
US politics & policy
Suspect in Maryland newspaper killing spree denied bail
...The white male “looked for his victims as he walked through the lower level”, said William Krampf, acting chief of the Anne Arundel County police department. He said it was a “targeted attack”....
June 29, 2018
Sport
F1 technical rivalry helps drive industry innovation
...Paul McNamara, technical director at Williams Advanced Engineering, says the challenge is how to make parts in carbon fibre “at volume”....
December 16, 2017
News in-depthCurrencies
Asian currencies surge despite North Korean threats
...You get used to it, I guess,” says Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics....
November 28, 2017
UK banks
RBS warns of risk to Williams & Glyn sale deadline
...RBS recently announced internally that Simon McNamara, chief administration officer, would see his role shifted to focus on technology to ensure the divestment of Williams & Glyn....
April 28, 2016
Currencies
US growth fillip gives boost to dollar
...Paul McNamara, portfolio manager at GAM Holding, said that despite the week’s dramatic fluctuations, the major currency pairs remained relatively rangebound....
August 27, 2015
UK economy
London faces gridlock as thousands of black taxis protest
...Vasagar in Berlin ——————————————- Letters in response to this report: Established cab drivers deserve consideration / From Mr Boynton M Rawlings Cabbies need to look at Stone Age / From Mr Richard Williams...
June 11, 2014
ObituaryGlobal Economy
Tom Clausen, admired World Bank chief
...He was neither a meticulous manager in the mould of Robert McNamara, his predecessor, nor showed the more imaginative later approach of James Wolfensohn....
January 29, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Reviews: Venice film festival
...After one medium-light toasting of a US defence secretary – Robert McNamara in The Fog of War – here is another. Rumsfeld, we know, helped George Bush Jr invade Iraq....
September 6, 2013
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
World
Texas fertiliser plant blast kills up to 15
...An estimated five to 15 people had died following the explosion, said William Patrick Swanton of the Waco police department at a news conference on Thursday....
April 18, 2013
ObituaryWorld
US spokesman who fronted Saigon’s theatre of war
...Murrow, which counted for something, and given a free hand by General William Westmoreland, the field commander, and US ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Ellsworth Bunker, which also mattered, Zorthian took...
January 15, 2011
Global Economy
Resource industry angry at tax increases
...Reporting by Sylvia Pfeifer and William McNamara in London, Peter Smith in Sydney and Bernard Simon in Toronto...
May 2, 2011
Commodities
Diamonds may not be forever
Argument similar to ‘peak oil’ theory
April 26, 2010
ObituaryMergers & Acquisitions
US general who hoped to be president
...Mr Haig’s way with the spoken word was immortally described by William Safire, the New York Times wordsmith, as “haigravation”....
February 21, 2010
US politics & policy
Decision-making echoes LBJ’s 1965 escalation
...Stacked against him were Robert McNamara, the defence secretary, and his field commander William Westmoreland, Dean Rusk, secretary off state, McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser, and his brother Bill...
November 30, 2009
IPOs
Drugmakers sweeten deals for biotech groups
...McNamara....
September 19, 2008
John Kay
Books: the good, the bad and the cheesy
...The same question might be posed of last year’s FT/Goldman Sachs prize winner: William Cohan’s gripping account of the internal politics of Lazard, The Last Tycoons....
May 27, 2008
News in-depthPensions crisis
Boom time for retirees
...Even the Liz Claiborne brand – which built its success on appealing to working baby-boomer women – is undergoing an overhaul that is likely to lead to a more contemporary fashion line, according to William...
December 5, 2007
US downturn
Goldman’s top alumni wield White House clout
...Kennedy asked Robert McNamara, a war veteran who had risen to the top ranks of Ford, to become secretary of defence in 1960....
December 4, 2006

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