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...For some 50,000 lucky to escape following dictator Idi Amin’s 90-day expulsion order, the attempt to rebuild their lives had already begun, with barely a suitcase to their name....
...Perhaps at some point, a crypto asset can reach escape velocity and hold value independently. But mostly, the crypto asset is just a bet on its progenitor....
...In other words, global merchant-acquiring businesses will probably remain locally competitive oligopolies, rather than achieving the “escape velocity” of monopoly status. Then there’s payments tech....
...When an industry consists of hundreds of small- and medium-sized enterprises, it is a mob, a rabble. Hundreds of companies can’t agree on what to tell Parliament or Congress or the Commission....
...“[But] the time of troubles won’t be limited to Russia,” Melnichenko says. “In cultural studies there’s a concept of the time of carnivals, and the time of orgies....
...In these deals, TPG funded businesses on the cusp of going public that needed a last infusion of cash before reaching escape velocity....
...That follow-on offering from Adani’s flagship listing is in part meant to address concerns raised by analysts over the company’s limited free float, after its share price gained more than 3,300 per cent...
...From spring until September, hundreds of cars – Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis – are flown to London from Arab states as a way to escape the desert heat....
...They have positions, they have velocities. We can predict everything. Quantum mechanics says that that’s what you see when you look at the world....
...Eminently private, with two outdoor bathtubs and a private garden with a fireplace designed by Bunny Guinness, it’s an escape within an escape....
...When in 2002 the regime legalised and licensed the operation of a limited number of market stalls around the country, it amounted to official acceptance of the role that predominantly female traders had...
...But there are broader lessons here about our limited capacity to control the environment and the need to live with nature as we find it, not how we wish it to be....
...Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to clean up India’s corporate and financial system have had limited success....
...This is usually Forte’s weekend escape where, during non-Covid times, he likes to host pheasant shoots. In a sense, it feels not unlike a luxury hotel....
...Most enterprises have set no climate goals, says Steve Varley, the global vice-chair for sustainability at EY, the consultancy....
...You can’t simultaneously say “we are a great free-trading nation, we will cut tariffs and be Global Britain” and “we need freeports so companies can escape tariffs”. Pick one, folks....
...Once the security law is imposed, however, foreign businesses fear they may no longer be able to expect the same fair treatment from Hong Kong courts, for example in disputes with Chinese state enterprises...
...Twelve pro-democracy activists were last week captured by China’s coast guard as they attempted a dramatic speedboat escape to Taiwan....
...Many UK businesses hope that their integration into the local economy and their employment of hundreds of local staff will mean they escape threats....
...There are always tense moments when a satellite is launched — will the rocket escape the earth’s atmosphere or come crashing back down?...
...Although the BoJ scheme will lessen borrowing costs and ease concerns over liquidity, banks cannot escape the credit risks....
...But that limited assurance has already drawn criticism from some of the more hawkish members of Trump’s party, such as Josh Hawley, a US senator from Missouri....
...Ten to 12 years from now, we could reach “longevity escape velocity”, extending our lives by a year for every year we live....
...Escape velocity from tech companies' familiar early-stage losses is reached through surging growth, driven by heavy investment in those formative years....
...Second, the government’s capacity to stimulate the economy is more limited than four years ago....
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