Hints and tips:
...Ordinarily, cigarette makers can offset volume declines by hiking prices, providing mid-single digit operating profit growth. When volumes fall off a cliff, that is much harder....
...Ordinarily, a shoe with holes in the soles would be primed for the dustbin....
...Yet this subscale business has marketing spend which eats into profit margins. It does not help that regulators view smokeless products with some degree of suspicion....
...This is against a wider global downturn where aspirational consumers are not yet in the mood to spend....
...Yet he was invariably able to find a counterbalance, often in small things a person might ordinarily ignore....
...And that really sums up what it was all about — setting the goal forces travellers to discover places they wouldn’t ordinarily think to visit. We had fantastic trips to these ignored states....
...“People were spending figures you would ordinarily spend on a house. It was eye-opening,” she says. It was quite a secluded market back then, but things shifted during the pandemic....
...And I think they might feel this gives us a reason to push on on this because it’s a differentiation with Labour for a party that people ordinarily vote for....
...My first question about that is, was there anywhere where you were, where you thought, I really want to spend more time here?...
...JPMorgan will recognise a one-time $2.6bn gain on the deal but said it expected to spend $2bn on restructuring costs in the next 18 months....
...But Liz Truss will spend the rest of her life as a punch line. No wonder Britain thinks avoidance isn’t so bad after all....
...The level depends on your partner’s earnings and the number of nights they spend with him. It applies to all children under 16, or those under 20 in approved education....
...Ordinarily I would have ridden from home to the start on my own machine, but commitments in southern Italy the morning after the rally ended made that impractical....
...Ordinarily, the trade-in value of our weary but operationally rock-solid friend would be something close to worthless....
...Budget next year, but they are gonna have to do this because there have been, you know, years of under-investment in public services and however much reform you want to offer, you are going to have to spend...
...Soumaya KeynesYes, this is all a bit unusual given that most of the time I spend my time lurking in corners, chin-stroking....
...Ordinarily there might be no shortage of buyers for such a prime soccer asset but what with the oligarch understandably wary of anything involving a western payment system, it was going to be hard to find...
...This inevitably puts pressure on a higher-tax and higher-spend outcome — hence the inexorable tax rises we are now seeing....
...Ordinarily online takeaway food proves to be fairly resilient in the face of inflationary pressures and dining out bears the brunt....
...The news that Boris Johnson has been fined for the breaching of lockdown rules he imposed on the nation ought ordinarily to be enough to finish him off. It is a shocking event....
...La Liga’s €2.1bn deal with buyout firm CVC Capital Partners shows how a collective approach can secure long-term financing for smaller football clubs that might ordinarily struggle to attract high-profile...
...Ordinarily this would have led directly to a job in an architect’s office. But again these were unusual times....
...Ordinarily, that would have allowed generic manufacturers to start offering cheaper versions....
...Read the FT analysis of how a collective approach is changing the game for clubs that would ordinarily struggle to attract high-profile investors....
...Countries such as France, which ordinarily use coursework and teacher assessment in combination with formal tests, fared better....
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