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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...Actually, he has quite a few — a level of extravagance far beyond what the others enjoy, and beyond even the levels of some of the world’s largest corporations and their executives....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...“Trump’s handling of the pandemic at home and abroad has exposed more painfully than anything since he took office the meaning of America First,” says William Burns, who was the most senior US diplomat,...
...Even at the time of its closure in 2004, it was making more than 1m products a day. It is now the new home of TalkTalk, the first FTSE 250 business to move its head office to Greater Manchester....
...One proposed design for Gateway, from the Sierra Nevada Corporation, would give the astronauts roughly as much floorspace as a 2,000 sq ft home....
...That last phrase comes from another California resident, Aldous Huxley (though borrowed from William Blake)....
...Not only did he design and manufacture cheap homes with his Standard Houses Corporation but he built entire settlements in Indian Head and Suitland, Maryland....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...The ‘Conspiracy’ of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation 1846-1896, by Marc-William Palen, Cambridge, RRP£64.99/$99.99 In a US election year thick with controversy...
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...Scandicrime by an American....
...The US role in the global corporate economy consists disproportionately of consultants, designers, personnel managers et al., who make a good living showing foreign leaders how to organise their businesses...
...We follow Nigerian student Ifemelu as she struggles with both her new American life and the powerful need to return home. A warm, lively and truly cross-continental read....
...A judge in Regina v....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...www.cassina.com 5 TV Sofa Bokja One of my personal highlights from December’s Design Miami was a preview of the Al-Sabah Art & Design Collection, the new design venture from Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Villa...
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...William Wallis, the FT’s Africa editor interviewed him in Addis Ababa....
...A fortune can be made selling the “long tail” of other products. MAVERICKS AT WORK: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C Taylor and Polly G....
...On weekends, he sometimes flies a private jet to his vacation home in Bermuda....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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