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...Last week the state department’s top Middle East official, Barbara Leaf, told Congress the death toll in Gaza could be “even higher than being cited”....
...designer married to the real estate mogul Stephen Ross....
...Ross Stores took an inventory valuation charge of $313m, which chief executive Barbara Rentler said was because the company expected to sell items “below our original cost”....
...Thomas Ross, president of the Volcker Alliance, said: “Paul A. Volcker was a giant among American public servants....
...Barbara Rentler, chief executive, said that a higher margin on merchandise, as well as leverage for occupancy and buying costs, “were more than offset” by the freight expenses, wage increases and expenses...
...“Despite unfavourable weather throughout the period, we achieved above-plan growth in both sales and earnings in the first quarter,” said chief executive Barbara Rentler....
...The marriage lasted 73 years; Barbara died in April, almost eight months before her husband, who had been suffering from a form of Parkinson’s disease....
...Net sales jumped 16 per cent year-on-year to $4.1bn, which chief executive Barbara Rentler credited to the company’s “ongoing success in delivering broad assortments of compelling bargains to today’s value-driven...
...“He was studied and quite thoughtful about the potential trade war,” Barbara Woodward said....
...Best of the rest The rise of woke capital — Ross Douthat in The New York Times The UK’s Brexit negotiating strategy is to drive our fellow Europeans mad — Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian Jared Kushner...
...Chief executive Barbara Rentler said she was pleased with the results, given the highly competitive and promotional holiday season....
...He would certainly not be stupid enough to contrive to get a gong by inviting a television interviewer such as Jonathan Ross to mention it on national TV....
...Barbara Perry, a historian at the University of Virginia, points out that JFK once brushed off critics with the riposte: “I can’t see that it’s wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes...
...Trump’s choice of the well-known faces from the financial industry, Wilbur Ross and Steven Mnuchin, to serve in his team have also been interpreted positively....
...Barbara Marder, a senior partner with talent consultant Mercer, based in Washington, DC, leads a team studying innovations in “predictive hiring”....
...Barbara Bush in her First Lady days orates from inside a pulpit of fire, which burns before a borrowed mountain meadow....
...Sotheby’s International Realty,sothebysrealty.com, tel: +39 055 0751888 … Villa di Serenita, 550 Freehaven Drive, Montecito, California, US, $15.75m Where In Montecito, an affluent district in Santa Barbara...
...Do we need Barbara Windsor’s bra popping off in Carry On Camping yet again, even if she is present to explain the mechanics of it to a chortling Ross?...
...Ross McEwan, chief executive of RBS, said: “I’m pleased the government has started to sell down its stake....
...Another month of strong growth at stores that specialise in cut-price goods, with 9 per cent increases at both TJX and Ross Stores, suggested consumers remain cost-conscious....
...of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed’s unexpectedly gripping account of how central bankers of the 1920s helped plunge the world into Depression, and journalistic investigations, such as Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross...
...The two companies pitched the announcement to agencies at the start of Advertising Week in New York, flanked by ABC journalists including Barbara Walters, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour....
...“It’s time people stood up and expressed the need for profound change,” said Barbara, a 70-year-old literary agent who declined to give her last name....
...Royal Victorian Order DAME COMMANDER, DCVO Sarah Goad, Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey KNIGHTS COMMANDER, KCVO Henry Erne, Lord-Lieutenant of County Fermanagh Walter Ross, secretary and keeper of the records...
...Eugene Anderson, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Michigan’s Ross school, will become dean on August 1....
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