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...The former head of Shell, Ben van Beurden, told the Financial Times this month that the oil major was “massively undervalued” in London and could benefit from listing in the US....
...Some kind of curse. Riley is pretty. He walks slightly hunched, like the prettiness has been beaten into him with a stick....
...The oil producer trades at 10 times trailing earnings; the American super-major oil producers trade at 15 times....
...Others caution that Guyana risks falling victim to the “resource curse”, in which sudden natural resource riches hollow out other domestic industries and breed political division and corruption....
...Marital tiffs are the curse of down time — the product of too much anticipatory zeal. They can also be lacerating, nasty, unnecessary and downright cruel....
...But when I started recording in Eya, the studio wasn’t completed so it felt safe from the curse. We did the whole thing in the booth....
...“It was the ultimate winner’s curse.”...
...That resource curse will gradually lift as reserves fall and the world’s thirst for oil is slaked....
...Dithering and indecision is the British infrastructure curse, says columnist Helen Thomas....
...The winners’ curse is avoided because the highest yield accepted is the price that every bidder gets, both competitive and non-competitive. So I don’t really matter?...
...This is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I think it makes you a better cook to have that kind of memory; and a curse because it makes you set your bar quite high....
...The experience proved to be an epiphany for the geophysicist, then working in the oil and gas sector....
...Her fellow student Mary Constance Lloyd, for example, delivers a sumptuous 1905 oil of John naked, reading on a bed....
...Its warren of rooms feature curse dolls, ancient talismans and – my forever favourite – a mock-up of the “wise woman’s cottage” where “Old Joan” recites spells and charms to passers-by....
...Until recently one of the poorest countries in the Americas, Guyana is hoping to avoid the “oil curse” that has befallen so many nations by spending its newfound wealth on building a sustainable economy...
...by Paul Stronski for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Tony’s picks of the week Business figures in east Asia linked to organised crime have helped facilitate large, illicit deliveries of oil...
...One can view this as a geopolitical quirk — a variation of the “resource curse”....
...Another recurring theme is that living in an area endowed with oil reserves can be a curse, not a blessing....
...This water is both a lifeline for the people, and a curse....
...Asafoetida, turmeric and whole spices meet hot oil and sizzle down the phone line. Mum inevitably asks if I’ll get changed before my guests arrive....
...But it has failed to diversify its economy, not just beyond oil, but beyond subsistence farming and informal activities. This is not because of an “oil curse”....
...There is also a big leaf salad and olive oil and vinegar dressing. I’m sorry to put him to trouble, I say....
...It might seem strange, but I really love Irish painter William Orpen’s 1905 oil painting “Job (from the Old Testament)”....
...“The war in Ukraine has been a blessing and a curse for the Gulf. They see America is back, not checking out and can mobilise when it wants to,” says Sanam Vakil, a Gulf expert at Chatham House....
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