The British also smushed together the former Ottoman provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra into their mandate for Mesopotamia which would later evolve into the state of Iraq.
The " Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts And Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the " less is more" trend.
Anthony Salz, a London lawyer whom Barclays commissioned to look into its business culture, found that pay at the bank was “focused on revenues and not on other aspects of performance”.