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...Jared Lou, portfolio manager at William Blair, said Brazilian local assets were still attractive. “Lula we view as a pragmatic leftist leader....
...The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Stephen Coll (Allen Lane/Penguin Press)A “definitive” account of the decades-long ties between the US and Saddam...
...It is all about identifying an Achilles heel. How the Fed — or the banks — might actually adopt this innovation in the future is unclear, since Barr says the debate is still “pretty nascent”....
...IMG, the global talent, modelling, and sports agency, was acquired by William Morris in 2014 to form Endeavor, led by the Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel....
...“Its Achilles heel is for its citizens to learn about the reality that exists outside their borders, and realise that much of what they have been taught by their government are falsehoods.”...
...Achille is the everyman of Tate Britain’s new multimedia show Life Between Islands....
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com, or email me at aime.williams@ft.com....
...“This is the Achilles heel of the recovery,” says Gregory Peters, a fund manager at PGIM Fixed Income....
...“It’s the dilemma that the more dependent you become on technology, the more you need to build resilience — so technology doesn’t become your Achilles heel.”...
...William Tanuwijaya has to be one of the best speakers in the world of Asian tech....
...Colorado-based Newmont, which was founded by promoter Colonel William Boyce Thompson in 1916, has no gold mines in Canada while Goldcorp has no mines in the US....
...Biden, meanwhile, who is embarking on his third presidential run, has spent much of his four-decade-plus career making gaffes — his Achilles heel in earlier White House races....
...The Achilles heel of the illegal wildlife trade is the very thing that motivates it — the money....
...the Girls , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Doubleday, RRP$27.95 Barker’s powerful feminist revision of Homer’s Iliad creates a central narrative voice for Briseis, the Trojan queen given to Achilles...
...The 43-year-old dancer, whose past injuries have included shoulder and Achilles tendon problems, suggested time had caught up with him....
...William Keegan London N1, UK...
...Travis steps on a bear trap set by Toomey, who, after magnanimously deciding not to kill him, takes his knife to the teenager’s Achilles tendon, so as to teach him that “there’s a price to be paid for stealing...
...At Troy the foremost Greek hero, Achilles, prefers a short life of undying glory to a long life and obscurity....
...Open for lunch and dinner Thurs to Mon Achille Hidden on quiet rue Servan, in a room no bigger than your average shoe-repair shop, Achille is the latest project of organic wine promoter Pierre Jancou....
...In practice that meant gobbling up the FTSE 100 or the companies on it, and doing the opposite with the FTSE 250 whose members include bookmaker William Hill and retailer Dixons Carphone....
...Look out for Joachim Froment’s “0.6 Chair”, made from pressed carbon fibre and wood veneer that’s a sleek 0.6cm thick, and “Topped” by William Huggons — a pot lid that doubles as a spinning top....
...The fear was that if she got stuck into the old fellow, it would be like Achilles and King Priam: gore and sliced limbs everywhere....
...If I wanted to describe a single weakness in a strong man, I’d use “Achilles heel”. Or to plant an infiltrator, I’d use “the Trojan horse”....
...Trefor Williams works for Diligence, a corporate intelligence firm whose smart London offices he has decorated with James Bond posters. Williams is muscular, with a lilting North Wales accent....
...Worse yet for New Zealand, star Sonny Bill Williams ruptured his Achilles tendon in the match, ending his participation at the games....
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