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Week in Review, March 3 Dominic Barton, McKinsey's amiable leader of the past nine years, will step down in July, having doubled annual revenues to $10bn under his tenure. Mr Sneader is viewed as a traditionalist who will keep the firm focused on its core area of expertise — strategy consulting — but he will also be under ...
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Half a million students in Germany suffer from a mental health illness: study In order to avoid possible mental health cases later on, the health insurance provider recommends that young adults - particularly those who have already experienced depression or anxiety - take advantage of online or in-person resources at an early stage. While more than a quarter (28 percent) of ...
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The 4 stories that mattered this week in Washington, explained A trader is comforted by a co-worker as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 1, 2018, in New York City. Major stock indexes plunged Thursday afternoon following President Trump's announcement that he was imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 ...
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Security forces in Burkina Faso's capital kill 7 gunmen Security forces have killed at least seven gunmen in Ouagadougou who launched apparent co-ordinated attacks on several targets in Burkina Faso's capital, including the military headquarters and the French embassy. The government of the west African country confirmed in separate statements to ...
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Kraken? Russians get mythical in contest to name nuclear weapons Russians are showering the defence ministry with ideas, relishing the online contest announced by President Vladimir Putin in his state of the nation address on Thursday. Many of the entries on Friday reflected a certain wry dark humour. Someone suggested calling the missile "Sanction", an apparent ...
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MoviePass won't let its customers buy tickets to Red Sparrow in some markets MoviePass is reportedly preventing some of its subscribers from buying tickets to Jennifer Lawrence's new action movie, seemingly as part of a negotiation strategy with the film industry. In this case, MoviePass users on Twitter have reported running into trouble trying to see Red Sparrow, which is ...
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Underwriters are winners in Provident's rights issue This is surely the weirdest rights issue of the decade. Shares in Provident Financial, a lender that has looked as distressed as some of its subprime borrowers, had been bobbling around a depressed 660p for weeks, as holders nervously awaited the mis-selling fine and restitution from the Financial ...
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Fundamentally Vulnerable? Ethereum's Casper Tech Takes Criticism In Curacao That was the claim put forward by distributed systems expert and founding VMware researcher Dahlia Malkhi on Friday, who used those exact words to describe ethereum's Casper protocol at Financial Cryptography 2018 in Curacao. During a keynote presentation, Malkhi's covered blockchain through ...
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Israeli police quiz Netanyahu in telecoms corruption probe Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara were quizzed by Israeli police on Friday, the first time the prime minister has been interrogated in a corruption probe involving the country's largest telecoms provider. Mr Netanyahu was "questioned for several hours" at his official residence, the police said in a ...
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Who and what to watch in Italy's election An opponent, the Five Star populist party, promises an online canvas of its members every time a major decision arises, in an experimental exercise of hyperdemocracy. And the ruling center-left party is tanking, even though Italy's economy looks rosier than five years ago when it took power.
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