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...“He always wanted whatever a person was due, to get it, especially money-wise and especially for young black entertainers,” said singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson....
...Born one of eight children to a boilermaker’s assistant and tavern owner in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron was inspired to take up baseball after listening to a speech by Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the...
...One is Willie Adams, a father of four in his thirties, who was working at Washington’s Georgetown University Hospital until last year, but is now unemployed and has recently been attending Robinson’s courses...
...“We see this as the future in this space,” says Aaron Robinson, senior sustainability manager at United Airlines....
...In 2009, Willie Walsh, then head of BA, abandoned the policy of choosing wines on the basis of what they tasted like, cutting costs by appointing a single exclusive supplier for each of the three classes...
...That’s in advance of the historical average and their rating relative to peers, writes Mark Robinson....
...the dinner included a high-profile Belgian art dealer, a City lawyer, two young French wine professionals, three of us Masters of Wine, including Anthony Hanson of Christie’s, and lifelong trencherman Willie...
...He may be unique in having had his favourite number — Willie Nelson’s version of “Blue Skies” — sung for him and his wife by the artist himself....
...It was a time of legends — Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Willie Mays....
...Sugar Ray Robinson tends to be the aficionado’s pick....
...Every one of the book’s mistakes was like a hammer-blow to me: we will come to the story of the “Wisden willie” later....
...Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, said: “This deal provides a future for BMI Regional and should secure around 330 jobs.”...
...Willie Walsh, British Airways’s chief, and top Iberia executives have drawn up a list of 12 possible takeover or merger candidates to pursue once their own tie-up is finalised, reports the FT ....
...View from the Top (video): BA’s Willie Walsh British Airways may focus more on development in Madrid if its merger progresses with Spanish airline Iberia, British Airways’ chief executive, Willie Walsh...
...Willie Walsh, BA’s CEO, will stay in the top job and Antonio Vázquez, Iberia’s chairman, will become chairman. See terms of the deal at FT Alphaville....
...In the same year she leaves Ferry for Mick Jagger. 1980: Appears in two films, Urban Cowboy and Willie and Phil. 1984: Her first daughter with Jagger, Elizabeth Scarlett, is born in New York. 1985: Publishes...
...Most of the cards are in the hands of Willie Walsh, BA’s chief executive....
...Iberia’s Fernando Conte said he was to meet Willie Walsh, BA chief executive, “pretty soon” to clarify where their talks were going, after being informed of BA’s rival secret talks with Qantas only an hour...
...More FT analysis here and, on BA chief Willie Walsh, here....
...Jacqui Smith, Peter Robinson and Lembit Opik are the big names to have gone tonight, it seems....
...Willie Walsh, BA chief executive and Joyce, who is also his former Aer Lingus colleague, met at the weekend in Hong Kong, home of Cathay Pacific, one of their partners in the Oneworld airline alliance....
...More significant, it notes, it marks the moment that BA – and CEO Willie Walsh – rose through the clouds. Read more FT analysis on BA here....
...Some suggest McCain/Obama due to national security.David Robinson, Scotland John Fortier: The general political mood of the country does not favour Republicans....
...If there were an Oscar for political slime, the award would go to Vernon Robinson, a congressional challenger in North Carolina....
...and Willie Mays....
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