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...“This is a historical moment . . . a bit of a ‘what the f***’ moment,” said Pascal Gauthier, chief executive of digital wallet provider Ledger. “It shows that no one is too big to fail....
...But you then get Diane Abbott from the left of the Labour party responding in like manner from the other sort of political extreme....
...Greg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, took these ravings seriously. He ensured that the 1,200 federal troops were closely monitored by the armed Texas National Guard....
...One politician, Lorena González, even tweeted: “F*ck Elon Musk,” adding that the state had “highly subsidised” the company....
...“Abbott goes on Fox News to advance his presidential ambitions. Cruz f@$&s off to Cancún. This is who they are. Weak. Inept. Self-Serving. Texans deserve better.”...
...Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, insisted on including churches in its list of “essential services”. One thing every pathogen loves is a congregation....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...There is more than a hint of Graham Greene in his prose, and in his ambition and idealism exhibited while in Hanoi, Holbrooke mirrors the fictional Alden Pyle, only he is the “unquiet American”....
...Bud Abbott and Lou Costello fell out when Abbott hired a maid who had worked for Costello....
...You cannot pretend that Donald Trump is John F. Kennedy....
...A row over female representation culminated in her openly telling the shadow home secretary Diane Abbott to “f*** off” during a meeting of MPs....
...“Get out you f***ng Jew,” they had shouted. Foster-Ogg was stunned when Miliband lost. “Everyone was in tears.” But canvassing had felt transactional. “It felt weird....
...In Solo he plays Beckett, a criminal and mentor of sorts to Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han Solo, with Donald Glover starring as the debonair smuggler Lando Calrissian....
...During the EU referendum, there was the angry woman who told David Cameron he had “f**ked every f**king thing up”. In 2017, it could be Cathy from Abingdon....
...Livingstone told him: “We’re going to look like the biggest f***ing liars since Goebbels.” McDonnell labelled Livingstone “a Kinnock” — shorthand for a sell-out....
...You’ll say, ‘This has got a top F, I can’t do it.’ And he’ll say, ‘But you just did it.’ For him [the priority] is virtuosity.”...
...Given Japan’s strengths in electronics and materials technology, a natural route is selling to US prime contractors on huge programmes such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter....
...“If I have to go because I’m mentally or physically f****d then maybe I’ve got to go, but I’m not going willingly, I’m going screaming,” he says....
...Ovarian Cancer Action Dr Peter Wrighton-Smith Chief Executive, Oxford Immunotec Alexandra Ford Chief Executive, Pancreatic Cancer UK Richard Penney Acting Chief Executive, Parkinson’s UK Dr Mark Abbott...
...Four F-16 fighter jets roared across the sky, one peeling off in a so-called missing man formation....
...F*** her! She’s 40 years old”) and Courtney Love (“No! She’s weird”). Instead she picked the twinkly-eyed Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias....
...John F Kennedy was a pragmatist. He wasn’t too left or right, really he just focused on solutions.”...
...GMI Ratings, a US corporate governance consultancy, gives it a D on a scale from A to F....
...‘You want to talk to me about the glass ceiling, f*** off. That’s not my conversation. Have that conversation with all the people who don’t cast black actors.’”...
...“Most Londoners say this is great for the city,” Mr Abbott says. “It’s about delivering a seamless Games to the world.”...
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