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...Instead, M&S has brought in upmarket fashionable brands such as Jaeger, which it bought out of administration in 2021, and begun selling others including Hobbs and Sweaty Betty on its website....
...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But this singer is not old at all. She is decisively Of This Moment....
...Betty Resnick, an economist at the federation, said that a fall in turkey prices had been “the big driver in lowering costs for the dinner”, pointing to “a much better avian flu situation nationally this...
...She has just bopped into a green room at a Manhattan hotel, said “Hiiiii” like we’re old friends and dropped her Betty Boop purse on a chair....
...In contrast, Winehouse’s slender body of work while alive, just the two albums, has been joined by only one compilation of previously unheard recordings, 2011’s Lioness: Hidden Treasures....
...Another early work, 1947’s “Untitled (The Crowded Mind/The Void)” presents a series of symbols cluttered together (geometric shapes, the sun, an aeroplane) with a chunk of the canvas cut off by a wave of...
...Looking at the overall speculative-grade US debt market, S&P Global Ratings said that “much will depend on the depth or duration of the recession” in 2023. How uplifting....
...Miłosz writes, dispelling the notion that citizens of totalitarianism are mindless automatons, “play[s] one’s adversary for a fool . . . Success in the game becomes a source of satisfaction.”...
...He then cruised through the leisure and entertainment sectors as the chief executive of Norwegian cruise line Vail Resorts — which he quickly scaled and took public — and Starwood Hotels, among others, before...
...Wong’s plan will raise the country’s carbon tax from the current level of S$5 per tonne ($3.7 a tonne) to S$25 per tonne ($18.4 a tonne) in 2024 and S$50-80 per tonne ($36.8-$58.9 a tonne) by 2030....
...From €550, lungarnocollection.com; or AdAstra, Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca’s jewelbox B&B, overlooking the city’s largest private garden....
...The city is believed to be the first in the country to introduce such restrictions as it battles Covid-19’s more infectious Delta variant....
...A global pandemic relief rally drove the US S&P 500 benchmark to gains of more than three times that figure....
...Betty Yap and Carl Fernandes have rejoined Linklaters as partners in their corporate and financial regulation practices, respectively....
...Who cares if Joan Crawford is outclassed in 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? That’s the film’s point, isn’t it?...
...The changing expectations are now visible beyond the largest chains: $15 has become the new minimum at the Vail ski resort in Colorado, at Universal’s theme park in Orlando, and at the Tyson Foods poultry...
...What else we’re reading Healing of democracies starts at home China’s rise is the G7’s most important strategic reality, writes Martin Wolf....
...“Equity markets are going to be looking through [short-term headwinds] to the vaccine with quite a lot of confidence,” said John Vail, chief global strategist at Nikko Asset Management....
...The drop in the price of oil, which has dragged energy companies down 40 per cent this year, making it the worst-performing sector in the S&P 500, will also weigh on future corporate profits, said Mr Vail...
...“If the recovery momentum continues, China could avoid another GDP contraction” in the second quarter, said Betty Wang, senior China economist at ANZ....
...Shares on Wall Street suffered early sharp declines but the S&P 500 index closed 0.8 per cent higher and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 1.4 per cent....
...Nikko Asset Management strategist John Vail said Japan may now find the moment of “peak activism” has passed and that while calls from outside investors for strategic change and consolidation are likely...
...“Japan is wisely targeting a large portion of the stimulus to individuals, families, small and midsize businesses who can prove they have been severely impacted economically by the crisis,” said John Vail...
...(In Polari, policemen were denoted with archly feminised monikers like Lily Law and Betty Bracelets.)...
...In 1945 he married Betty Brown, a convert to Judaism, who would become both his literary agent and muse. The couple had three children, the eldest of whom died in a childhood accident....
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