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...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Between 30,000 and 50,000 extras, supplied by the Romanian army, were to have been transported to locations by a fleet of 1,000 trucks....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...The first is demonstrative — a nuclear shot that does not kill anyone....
...Managers such as John Paulson, Steve Cohen and Ray Dalio became stars, and Li aspired to reach their ranks....
...And at some point during the relentless drenching, beneath the leaden London sky, I asked myself, “Why does she do it?”...
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Thus I’d implement a tax of 1 per cent per annum for, at least, the duration of the recession and maybe indefinitely, (up to say a maximum of 50 per cent ownership of any one property)....
...That has since been cut to one of minus 1.2 per cent, as plotted here by FactSet....
...1,000kg of illegal bushmeat....
...You won’t regret it. 1. Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...For S&N it all boils down to 2020 adjusted trading profit of $1,218bn to US$1.241bn versus a consensus of $1.243bn, so hardly a warning at all....
...However, it does not alleviate the risk of downgrades for firms and sectors with challenged cash flows....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...You could make 50 grand in a weekend, man. I've seen people do it. JOHN KERNAN: We estimate that there's over $2 billion in gross market value overall....
...“I would love to come back in 50 years to see what has happened,” he says. Affairs of state are pressing but I have time to ask him which of his many lives he has most enjoyed....
...The US boasted Wernher von Braun, the German ex-Nazi inventor of the V-2 rocket, a trophy from the second world war. Both were scarred by conflict and driven by a passion for space....
...That phrase — “Mars (of which the Moon is a part)” — was widely mocked, but it does actually reflect the priorities of space experts. Mars is now what gets people excited....
...It means that Brazil risks falling into a new slump if the next administration does not take swift steps to rein in spending....
...The deal isn't cheap — AIG is paying more than 1.5x book value, which implied a one-day premium to Validus's previous closing price of nearly 50 per cent....
...It is set so that numbers above 50 show expansion, and below 50 show contraction....
...My involvement with various institutions such as the V&A and the Serpentine has really opened my eyes....
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