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...Results from supermarket Wm Morrison, Primark owner AB Foods and Sportswear chain JD Sports add a slight retail flavour to the UK earnings calendar....
...Willie Walsh, head of IAG, will postpone his retirement to steer the group through the health emergency....
...(FT) Irish chief of British Airways to retire Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways’ parent company, is to retire....
...A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, by Toni Morrison, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20/ (as The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations), Knopf, RRP$28.95 Morrison’s latest...
...The Villa Maria Sauvignon Blanc on offer in BA first class was spotted in Morrisons at £5 a bottle, two for £9. (BA says it is no longer on the menu.)...
...As the artistic director Willie White puts it: “We look backwards to see how we can go forwards.”...
...Van Morrison’s is pure Celtic mysticism; Hugh Laurie growls along with his piano; folk singer Sarah Gillespie is borne along by a martial snare tattoo, leaving room for Gilad Atzmon’s wild clarinet solo....
...Tall poppies Asked why he robbed banks, armed raider Willie Sutton reputedly said: “Because that’s where the money is.”...
...Grant Morrison, comic book writer and playwright. Roger Proctor, managing director, Proctor and Stevenson, marketing agency. Amanda Redman, actress....
...It would also help British Airways, the airport’s dominant airline, now part of International Airlines Group, the would-be consolidator led by Willie Walsh....
...Nelson’s Phases and Stages (1974), Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love (1967), ABC’s The Lexicon of Love (1982), Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks (1968), Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly (1972), Frank Zappa’s Freak...
...Willie Walsh would like to give away British Airways’ pension deficit but the Pensions Regulator has specified on the receipt no returns within 30 years....
...In 2005, Willie Walsh spent six months by the side of outgoing British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington before taking charge in the autumn....
...Bush that attacked Democrat Michael Dukakis by using the image of Willie Horton, an African-American who had been convicted of murder, was condemned for having racist overtones....
...On genuinely powerful versions of Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man and Willie Nelson’s Always On My Mind an unexpectedly thoughtful and emotionally charged Buble tentatively peeps out from Foster’s controlling...
...The high regard many investors have for Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways, was illustrated in a bullish London market on Wednesday....
...This compares with the 5.2 per cent for Sainsbury and 2.8 per cent for Morrison recorded over similar periods....
...‘Shop at Morrison’ was the slogan on the side of the bag, beneath the familiar logo of Wm Morrison, the supermarket chain....
...Now that Blue Note has Al Green and Van Morrison and Anita Baker, whose [2004] album just sold about 750,000 copies, the pressure's on us as if we were a pop label....
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