The company must continue to examine every area of our operation to remain competitive.”. Wolverhampton & Dudley, the UK’s biggest regional brewer, yesterday rejected a takeover approach from Botts & Company, a private equity firm, claiming that the offer undervalued the business and was “too uncertain”. Wolverhampton & Dudley, the UK’s biggest regional brewer, yesterday [...]
Even bursaries for poor students might not provide equality of opportunity.Tom Wilson, the head of universities at the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education, predicted that 20 per cent of universities, mostly former polytechnics, could close if top-up fees were introduced. “There is not the kind of demand to sustain the size [...]
A week ago today, I was standing on a cliff-top watching the sun sinking from a cloudless sky into a placid sea. It was disconcerting suddenly to remember that the whole exquisite effect was an illusion The sun was not really going down The sky only seemed to be blue. The surface of the sea [...]
Ilya Klebanov, the deputy prime minister, said earlier “there had been no sounds for quite a long time from within the Kursk”.He said most of the crew would have been in the part of the boat hit by the catastrophe, and the most likely cause was collision with another vessel. No other ship or submarine [...]
The best way to make that happen is to elect a new administration in November,” said Mindy Tucker, spokeswoman for the campaign of George W Bush. Some Republicans, however, drew parallels with another scandal. “The timing was reminiscent of 1992, when, just four days before the presidential election, special prosecutor Lawrence E Walsh indicted Reagan [...]
But if the world, perhaps led by Sweden, allows President Mbeki to shift the global trade order, then the TV misery clips of Africa could gradually diminish in number.. First it was the Dark Side of Star Wars that savaged Character Group’s performance. Now it is the dark side of the British summer that is [...]
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There will be nothing left, Mum, can you understand that?”Another of his friends, who is slightly less apocalyptic, is far more concerned with the specific threat of planes falling from the sky, and tells me about the how whole towns will be destroyed on New Year’s Eve. Now my own son, aged eight and temperamentally [...]
Today On this day 40 years ago jazz history was made when Miles Davis went into the studio with brief outlines of two new tracks and completed his breathtaking Kind of Blue album. So at least there was something pleasant to listen to, and occasionally the action became mildly amusing too, especially in the lugubrious [...]
At times, the communication channels were jammed with consultants shouting instructions. On one occasion there was an eerie silence throughout the whole game and the performance of the team reflected this lack of communication.”The City is by no means the only large, competition-driven institution to recognise the potential of computer games in training its workforce. [...]
But he sees right-brain thinking primarily associated, in human history, with women’s traditional roles as nurturers and food- providers, and left-brain thinking as connected to men’s activity as hunters and killers. He then asserts: “the plunge in women’s status, and the advent of harsh misogyny occurred around the time that people were learning how to [...]