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...Pilita Clark (Business Life, February 19) hints at uncomfortable truths behind employers’ attitudes to remote working....
...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...Technology is transforming the age-old tradition of colleagues chipping in for a farewell gift, writes columnist Pilita Clark....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...“I think that it will last for a couple of years,” Qatar Airways’ chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, told the FT. Predictably, a cottage industry has emerged to advise travellers what to do....
....” — Mike Clark, Oxfordshire, UK...
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...But dumping the cynical first-person narration that distinguished The Big Sleep et al may not have been a prudent move....
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...You can understand why the US et al would make a big fuss about Russia avoiding its sanctions by flogging knockdown oil to India or cheap gas to China — though I would note in passing that Russia’s imperialist...
...In two contrasting takes on the power of Amazon, Facebook, Google et al, politicians and legislators are also found sorely wanting....
...Trump et al v....
...Or, if the weather’s warm, try their signature Cappuccino Al Freddo, a frothy iced number whipped up in a milkshake maker....
...Ted Baker pushed back the publication of full-year results due this week to June 10 because of “disruption caused by Covid on the audit processes.”...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...As such, it began to mirror the tumultuous developments in architecture (arts nouveau and deco), music (ragtime and jazz), the performing arts (Josephine Baker, Diaghilev et al) and painting (fauvism, cubism...
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver, Manchester, England; Steve Clark...
...But Al Edwards of the University of Reading School of Pharmacy said substituting material was not straightforward. “To make that test accurate, you need to keep the ingredients fixed,” he said....
...al...
...And to complete the set, Gregg Baker Asian Art gallery is showing Japanese Zen Buddhist works alongside modern Japanese painting....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
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