Hints and tips:
...One of Bill Clinton’s top advisers memorably said that he would like to be reincarnated as the bond market “because you can intimidate everyone”....
...The US bill only lists financing to buy the weapons, not how much of each system Washington will supply....
...Johnson said the House would vote on three funding bills (for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan) and a fourth bill on the popular video-sharing app. Here’s more on what is next for the TikTok ban bill. 3....
...That document will also indicate increases in customers’ bills to fund investment in Thames Water’s creaking infrastructure....
...This would involve allowing water bills to rise by 40 per cent by 2030 — a hard sell politically....
...Passage of the US bill would enable much-needed artillery munitions to be sent to the frontline and would be likely to alleviate Ukraine’s shell hunger....
...I know it has a charmingly retro feel but frankly, if I have to be ill, I expect something suitably of the zeitgeist: a Chinese-bred pandemic, perhaps, or some artificially intelligent virus, which strikes...
...US regional banks that frankly most Europeans had never heard of but were the size of several continental national champions were dying off as the sharp rise in interest rates exacted a heavy toll....
...Frankly I think that’s all a bit of a sideshow....
...Agas are expensive to run: a four-oven model can cost more than £5,000 a year in electricity bills, and around £2,800 annually for models fueled by gas or oil....
...But frankly they were all votes for merger. And we moved in the Referendum Bill that (even) spoilt votes will be counted as votes for merger.” Patrick Dransfield Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates...
...bill had been agreed in the Senate by both Democrats and Republicans....
...The more troubling and, quite frankly, cynical argument, is that asking large banks to hold more capital will hurt vulnerable individuals, impacting mortgage lending to minorities, for example....
...the bill that Congress had written....
...On Thursday, Congress agreed to the much smaller sum of $300mn as part of a wider military spending bill while negotiations over the larger package dragged on....
...It frankly doesn’t reflect very well on Rishi Sunak either. I think, you know, the question about why he didn’t remove the whip from William Wragg immediately....
...I doubt it, frankly....
...Frankly, that suggests to me that, while the arguments in the letter are worth engaging with, the career choices of the signatories aren’t....
...What was your take on some of the names of those opposing the bill, Miranda?...
...Frankly, another Big Bang wouldn’t go amiss. And they’re wrong, anyway. The centre of the cosmos is the members’ bar at the Sydney Cricket Ground....
...The FT has to pay, I say, before realising that she is paying her own bill. “Can someone pay for me?” Milley asks with a mischievous grin....
...And quite frankly they’re worth more than what we’re having to pay for hay,” she added, meaning ranchers are finding it better to sell cattle than feed them....
...Deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law Bills in their then existing form and timetable; 4....
...“It’s been difficult to find the staff since Brexit, frankly,” Winter said. High inflation had made the situation worse, she noted....
...“I have been flummoxed frankly by this approach....
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