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...Seven tracks in, the evolving drum solo “Sea V 4 WD (part 1)” begins with loose-skinned rumbles on side-drum and snare — the slow-burning “(part 2)” is the second track....
...That may eventually weaken Hong Kong’s position as an offshore renminbi centre, according to a report from Ping An Securities Research Institute....
...The Hong Kong-listed shares of Citic Securities and Ping An Insurance are comparative bargains. Property developers have been badly hit. They now look oversold....
...I heard the unmistakable sound of that ping from ‘Echoes’. I looked at my wife and said, ‘This is going to be a long 20 minutes.’ ” He laughs, gently, and sighs....
...China’s Ping An, the world’s biggest insurer by market capitalisation, has invested heavily in technology and has some of the industry’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems....
...Ren Zhengfei, its founder, and rotating chairmen Ken Hu and Guo Ping will all attend. But this year it is facing what some industry executives have dubbed “the Battle of Barcelona”....
...The value added here is equivalent to commentating on ping-pong balls in a tumble dryer. If all you want right now is a buy-and-forget portfolio, here’s Peel Hunt’s screen....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...In our office, it is not uncommon to see a group of young workers playing a fiercely contested ping pong match....
...Reform supporters say the ping-ponging of legislation between the two chambers leads to big delays, gridlock and instability. Mr Renzi’s solution is to disempower the Senate....
...In one sign of the turnround in its portfolio, one of 3i’s last big third-party buyout funds, the €5bn Eurofund V, has rebounded in value....
...The Millennial v Boomer column appears once every four weeks Mrs Moneypenny Benefits — even free lunches — are not new....
...Throughout the latter half of the 16th century, increasing numbers of travellers and traders ping-ponged between England and the Islamic world....
...Design good places to work in (but no ping-pong tables or beanbag chairs).12. Don’t be scared of a flatter management style.13....
...I could have checked the internet or got my phone to ping through score flashes. But I never did. Was it just too easy? Was it me? Or was it cricket?...
...Similarly, Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, sees placing its stores in “high-visibility” locations such as shopping centres as helping to normalise electric cars....
...The raw material he deals with is every bit as durable and gripping as Lego bricks....
...Mr Li read A.V. Dicey, an expert on British constitutional law, and helped translate the “Process of Law” by Lord Denning, an influential British judge....
...The latest emergency motion in the legal ping-pong that is the fight between Argentina and the “holdouts” reads like a Thesaurus and is another example of sophisticated legal argument....
...No, this is about mainframes v muppets, he assures us, formulas v felt, digital v the real thing. There is more to a good movie than computer-generated characters, he says....
...Also, it has more in common with Facebook than the usual “search algorithm v social network” contrast suggests....
...Modernist architecture ping-pongs across the era in an enthralling game as both sides claim and reclaim moral ownership....
...v China, and China v China....
...The notices pinned up in the shop windows hinted at the cultural divide: “Eymet Cricket Club v Bordeaux CC. Dimanche, 13.00hrs. The a l’anglais. Boissons fraiches.”...
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