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...But behind the scenes, senior figures admitted the £28bn number was an “albatross” that they sorely regretted and needed to excise....
...Joe Biden has hitched his fortunes to a man — Benjamin Netanyahu — who is co-creator of the ghastly dilemma with which Israel is now faced....
...Albatross described itself as a maker of commercial drones for agricultural purposes and mapping. But Ilya Voronkov, the company’s co-founder, has admitted in interviews to supplying the military....
...Labour blamed the move to water down its target, which some had viewed as an “albatross” around its neck, on the government’s mishandling of the economy, which looks set to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s party...
...Popular culture has always co-opted birds as emblems of marital devotion. Turtle doves, swallows and lovebirds figure heavily....
...Read more about the Albatross here. 3....
...Recommended reading My column this week warns that Biden has hitched his fortunes to a man who is co-creator of the ghastly dilemma facing Israel....
...But for its maker, the presidential aircraft is becoming an albatross....
...The North American cereal business, known for Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispies, would stand alone after in effect becoming an albatross for years....
...Co-chief executive Ted Sarandos once said it was based on “70 per cent gut and 30 per cent data. Most of it is informed hunches and intuition.”...
...John and Angel now work with a private security company called Albatross Consultants. But they used to work out of a DEA field office in Newark, New Jersey....
...“The military is an albatross around Sri Lanka’s neck,” one foreign diplomat said....
...They can co-operate, but they can also compete. What does all this mean for today’s war? Less predictable outcomes for starters....
...Rothschild & Co has hired David Mell as a managing director in its global advisory business for the consumer retail sector, based in New York....
...The Worcester family business, under the auspices of the Worcester Wreath Co, is Christmas wreaths....
...Gokalp Cak, co-founder of the Turkish logistics firm Netlog, says that the bank offers longer-term financing with better rates than the country’s domestic banks....
...After Mr Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, Mr Black’s ties to him became an albatross around Apollo’s neck....
...Immelt had promised that GE’s earnings would reach $2 per share by 2018, but that figure became an albatross as the power division weakened....
...The writer is co-founder and principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a consulting firm Roman roads, Chinese gunpowder, British steamships, repeating firearms: great power competition has always been...
...It sounds like a bad Cate Blanchett movie, not least because I’m a decidedly urban creature who can barely tell a black-browed albatross from a killer whale....
...His inquiry with this piece is as much into what it means to co-operate as what a black-and-white snap sounds like....
...It is a fig leaf of consumerism — a way to appease our guilt,” says Siân Sutherland, who co-founded the advocacy group A Plastic Planet. “We just need to find a way to use less plastic packaging....
...The market-movers of 1896 had solid, descriptive and quietly flag-waving names like Standard Rope & Twine, Pacific Mail Steamship and the North American Company....
...That plan stalled after the Steamship Company launched a legal challenge, prompting a local petition in objection, signed by more than 10,000 people....
...Palmerston himself had claimed more than once that these insidious ambitions had been made possible by modern steamships, which had “turned the Channel into a river” and “thrown a bridge across it”....
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