Word: pearsons
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...seen the enemy and he is us, at our worst. As a slightly less pessimistic British writer, Martin Amis, has observed: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else. Indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part of the reader's brain." Kingdom Come addresses the shopping lobe. Richard Pearson, a newly jobless advertising executive, visits the Brooklands Metro-Centre, an enclosed shopping mall of gigantic proportions - 20 supermarkets, 30 pharmacies, two hotels - along the M25 motorway near London's Heathrow airport. Two weeks earlier his father, a retired airline pilot, was killed there along with other shoppers when...
...much more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor, and told him he could make Coke's machines more profitable. Similarly, in early 2005, Stuart Farrell, retail development manager for mobile operator Vodafone UK, and Ralf Pearson, project manager at UTL, a logistics company that works with Vodafone, were discussing ways to improve distribution of prepaid mobile phones - which make up 60% of the U.K. market - when they noticed a candy machine in a tube station. Farrell joked about selling mobiles from vending machines, "and we both...
...Prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson recently spoke about how both individuals and groups have "layers of identity." In his own "biography of identity," he lists the variety of languages spoken by his indigenous forebears, as well as clan, religious and geographic affiliations. He told a Brisbane audience last month that Australians need to take into account those parts of our identity that are shared and those which are distinct. Pearson argued that without a better understanding of identity, "multiculturalism" - because it is based only on "culture" - won't endure as a unifying concept. What could emerge, as Nobel economics laureate...
Lesa Lessard Pearson, executive director of the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation, identified the $12.35 million donation as the largest single gift to the Rappaport Institute to date. The gift raised the total amount donated by the Foundation to the Kennedy School above $15 million...
Speaking on behalf of the Rappaport Foundation, Pearson said they are hoping the money will continue “to bring local elected and appointed officials together with the bright minds of Harvard to share their resources and ideas as they address public policy issues in Boston and beyond...