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    Trump tweet, NFL response puts politics into US football

    Associated Press, Published on 25/09/2017

    » The owners of the Baltimore Ravens, the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and other teams on Sunday joined a chorus of NFL executives criticising President Donald Trump's suggestion that they fire players who kneel for the national anthem.

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    GM's Cruise Seeks Regulatory OK to Test Shuttle With No Steering Wheel

    Business, Published on 03/12/2022

    » General Motors Co.'s driverless-car unit has requested approval from California regulators to begin public testing of a shuttle that has no steering wheel or manual controls, showing the auto maker's determination to make progress on autonomous vehicles as rivals step back.

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    In the driver's seat

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 14/12/2020

    » Ramesh Narasimhan has loved cars since he was young. The holder of an MBA from Australia's Monash University has turned his passion for cars into a successful career, and two decades on he still finds it fun to come to work every day.

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    Why Bezos Is Staying On as Executive Chairman

    Business, Patrick Thomas, Published on 05/02/2021

    » Jeff Bezos, the founder and longtime chief of Amazon.com Inc., is giving up his chief executive position, but not his seat of power.

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    In the wake of the not so great debate

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/10/2020

    » While there might have been an element of entertainment in a perverse sort of way watching the US presidential candidates slagging one another off like squabbling children, these politicians still have a lot to learn in the art of insulting behaviour.

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    Should you innovate with your customers? (part 1)

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 19/09/2020

    » To what extent should innovators listen to customers' ideas and suggestions? There are proponents and opponents of involving customers in innovation endeavours. In the first of this two-part series, we'll hear from each camp and explore different situations that may influence their arguments. The second part will propose some possible solutions to reconcile the different views.

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    Psycho-killers, interviewed

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/08/2019

    » The series didn't drop with as much ballyhoo as most Netflix new releases; instead it creepy-crawled into the algorithm of fans with chilly stealth last Friday. Mindhunter Season 2, created by Joe Penhall with several episodes directed by David Fincher, is a cerebral remedy to Netflix's glut of story-driven series and formulaic cliffhangers. Mindhunter takes almost a geeky pride in its dialogue-heavy exploration of the most vicious minds in the anthology of American true crime, the procession of ultra-violent serial murderers, pathological rapists and sadistic torturers, and in the way it isn't fixated on solving any particular cases (as is expected from a detective show) but taking time to study the methodological eccentricity of each crime and the increasingly dark obsession of the detectives, sucked ever more inextricably into the transgressive vortex.

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    Screen grab

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 17/12/2018

    » How many people these days watch TV with one eye on the big screen and the other on their smartphone? Quite a lot, but reaching this "multiscreening" audience effectively is a growing challenge for marketers.

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    Company man

    Asia focus, Published on 19/03/2018

    » Shinsotsu-ikkatsu-saiyo, the tradition of simultaneous recruitment and employment of new graduates by companies, has long been unique to Japan and South Korea, before the latter abolished the practice in 2010. But in the world's third largest economy it is so embedded in the culture, who's to say it's not working for the country and its people?

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    High-minded brow

    Life, Published on 08/05/2018

    » May is a charitable month for Benefit Cosmetics, whose "Bold Is Beautiful" project invites people to contribute by having a brow wax to raise funds for charities worldwide.

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