Hints and tips:
...Today, Galeries Lafayettes is Europe’s biggest department store chain....
...Understandably, Alex Drexler resisted joining the industry over which his father looms large, first considering law school or a career as an FBI agent....
...When music education was cut in the 1970s, she started to fill the void through work with the Opera Lafayette and the National Symphony Orchestra, among other institutions....
...London’s Christians have a history of hospitality dating back to Norman times (the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in Limehouse, just beyond the Roman city walls, has provided bed, board and worship since...
...I live in a civil parish in Oxfordshire, smaller than Sedgley, and can list all its local attractions in order of popularity....
...She added that many children were going hungry at holiday times without school dinners....
...It’s also Britain’s strongest legacy of the social democratic 1945-79 era, present in almost every parish and catering to almost the whole population....
...Whether it be a parish council, school or multinational corporation, the non-executive board, he writes, plays a critical part in their success: “They do not run it; they watch over it, they supervise it...
...La Redoute’s target is to break even this year, and in April it sold a majority stake to French department-store chain Galeries Lafayette. “It’s a revolution,” says Balla....
...Sharon Tighe-Mooney was still in school when the Pope came to Ireland in 1979....
...“They’re from parishes up in north-east Louisiana that have private parish jails. And they’re waiting for somebody to get convicted....
...“France has for so many years been too rigid and bureaucratic,” says Frank Bournois, dean of the business school ESCP Europe....
...After studying economics at the University of Cambridge in the UK, he returned to Penn for law school....
...Building peaked in 1968 at about 426,000 homes, while Grenfell was on the drawing board....
...For 38 years we have survived every economic downturn by reinventing ourselves, taking on board new suppliers, creating new products and ramping up our export drive....
...“When I was a kid I would walk to school and all the houses were occupied. Now they are all empty. There are so few locals left.”...
...His Open Society Foundation provided heating fuel last winter to schools, orphanages and old people’s homes....
...After a happy childhood, Chancellor says her confidence took a knock when she was sent to board at St Mary’s School, a convent near Shaftesbury....
...“I ran for school board in a district that was 30 per cent white, and I was elected twice. I don’t want to say we are ever beyond that, but that it’s no longer the first lens that is looked through.”...
...But if every parish and hamlet had joined in, Potterne would have been unperturbed. They are the epitome of the new cricket....
...They are looking at board-level appointments and asking whether they want to do that.”...
...She credited a spartan boarding-school education with toughening her; she lived without “extravagant” central heating even in old age....
...When they’re transformed, they tend to be better for everyone across the board – but it has to happen in a reasoned and inclusive way.”...
...The Coal Board and the local council built housing estates and schools to cope with the exploding population....
...One morning last September, a visitor arrived at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana....
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