Hints and tips:
...A moderation in oil prices had lowered the political temperature surrounding Big Oil’s profits, even in an election year, said Bob McNally of Rapidan Energy Group, a Washington-based consultancy....
...The company supplies most of the bits and bobs that businesses need, from mop heads, bin bags and stirring sticks to picks, spades and building materials....
...But my favourite term in Huff’s book is “statisticulation”, the manipulation of statistics....
...Two labradors huff by his side. But the idyll wasn’t won easily....
...When the teenage Robert Zimmerman renamed himself Bob Dylan, it was an act of self-invention to rival any novelist’s characterisation....
...These included Red Rum’s three victories in the 1970s and Aldaniti’s win, ridden by Bob Champion, in 1981....
...“Bob is making a home where talent can grow,” he says....
...The company was hit by disruption of its retail distribution, the weak dollar and the absence of Bob the Builder from US TV screens....
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