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...The medical device and healthcare company Abbott Laboratories, based on Chicago’s farther outskirts, has leased offices in the city’s most famous downtown skyscraper, the Willis Tower....
...Willi Riester, the chief technology officer in China at Chiron, a family-run maker of machine tools, said that 15 years ago local competition was rare and “not really able to produce and engineer machines...
...Two cashmere numbers from Emma Willis, in brown and blue, I treasure, though it looks as if someone put out a cigarette in the brown one. I could go on....
...“I’d gone to this wine and R’n’B event in Brixton called Genuwine, where Dan was DJing. And when he saw me, he was like, ‘You’re Dynamite! What are you doing here?’...
...Richard Talboys, executive director of the trade credit division at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, estimates that the losses from the collapse of food wholesaler Palmer & Harvey last year were more...
...The UK’s Starling Bank tags #sidehustle in posts promoting the moneymaking side projects of its users, including selling cupcakes and an R’n’B themed kitchenware business....
...Mr Mohideen expects other smaller investment banks to join them in deploying third-party technology to bridge the gap between what they spend on R&D and the $11bn technology budget of JPMorgan....
...£85bn aggregate deficit of DB schemes in June Willis Towers Watson estimated the surplus could reach billions of pounds....
...About $88bn has been invested in ILS, up from $24bn in 2011, according to Willis Towers Watson Securities....
...Warburg Pincus has appointed Dominic Casserley, the former chief executive of insurance giant Willis Group, as a senior adviser....
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...An atmospheric production that mixed country music with funky R&B, “Ode to Billie Joe” is an enigma. Its storyline is clear enough; some of the details are not....
...Another transformation is in the offing, although there is some investor resistance to a proposed takeover by Willis Group, the insurance broker, since the deal was announced in June....
...“They are not going to come in and kill the R&D or capex to take as much cash out as possible. And he will only be one of many people on the board.”...
...Her parents are South African, but her repertoire resonates with the spacious rhythms, romantic concerns and intricate vocals of 1980s R&B....
...A.R. Ramzgooyan started his career working for BP in the UK in the 1980s....
...And the thing I’m eyeing next is a cast-bronze water fountain by a young Kiwi artist called Luke Willis Thompson....
...The most recent film in the Die Hard franchise, 2013’s A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis, was filmed in Budapest, Hungary’s capital....
...It also adds sales to support R&D spending for both products and services, as Alstom has a large base of about 350GW of installed turbine capacity, to add to GE’s base of about 1,000GW....
...The one-time head of R&D has experience firmly rooted in product. He introduced both the sunglasses and haute horlogerie ranges to the TAG Heuer portfolio....
...The iPads have been so successful that sales and marketing, R&D and other groups now actively seek IT involvement in new projects. “They see us as a source of Innovation,” Mr Hedges sas....
...The comic features Mr Schwarzenegger as an all-action, ex-California governor out to defeat bad guys from the sinister G.I.R.L.I.E....
...Biographical note on Eric Dinallo from New York State Insurance Department Eric R....
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