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...He was formerly the head of BP. Wood Mackenzie has hired Jason Liu as chief executive. He previously worked as the CEO of Zywave. Blackstone has appointed Philip Sherrill as global head of insurance....
...The decor was a pleasingly tactile mix of wood, leather and silver, with a mirrored wall behind the bed reflecting the lake to add to the slick nautical feel....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...There are of course other important announcements due this week, not least a steady flow of results, probably best described as a smorgasbord, from retailers and drugmakers to technology companies and insurance...
...Both Sheikh and Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and were astounded by the V&A’s originals after muted reproductions at home....
...A different type of mess is now surrounding Lincoln National Corp, the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based insurance company that lends the stadium its name....
...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....
...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...Engi Meacock collaborated with Local Works Studio to concoct wood stains and finishes using ingredients from the surroundings: linseed oil, rye flower and natural pigments for the green wood stain; clay...
...sclerotic lesions in Segments III, IV and V, which show high FDG-avidity on FDG PET....
...Martin argues that a revival of UK capital markets is essential, to reverse a multiyear trend in which pension and insurance companies have dumped UK equities, reducing the ability of companies to raise...
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...the Charles Goodhart Library at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London....
...“Insurance and grain futures were once distrusted concepts that evolved into the important risk-management tools we know today....
...His saga underscores the widening splits in Russia’s intelligentsia and the possible reshaping of its cultural and intellectual life for years to come....
...“Historically, theatres would focus more of their operation on the production itself,” says Hallgarten national account manager Howard Corrigan....
...Regulators seem unwilling to take the US tech company’s word for it....
...A huge chunk of that — Rs205bn — came from the sale of a 3.5 per cent stake in state-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in May through a long-delayed initial public offering....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...As Jean-Michel Gathy told me, “When you have made it in life, the only things you really want are knowledge and comfort....
...The current tallest flagpole in the US stands at a measly 400ft. It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway....
...Liz Truss’s plan to reverse the rise in national insurance contributions would help the poorest households by just 76p per month on average, the TBI found....
...The scant facts we have about Crivelli’s life suggests it may have mirrored his art....
...The responses point to higher fuel and utility bills, rising National Insurance and business taxes, supply chain disruption and the combination of higher wages and labour shortages....
...Not since the one-child policy has a national strategy touched nearly every individual in China....
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