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...An infamous $1bn “road to nowhere” in Montenegro remains unfinished and dogged by corruption allegations, construction delays and environmental issues....
...Was that delay because of lack of financial backing, or delays in planning consent . . . ? Kate Nottage Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, UK...
...Any external appointment could take time and result in further delays to the trial or a shift in strategy....
...Cardell added that Microsoft had “gained nothing from this delay. It has simply cost them time and money and they could have reached this solution months ago.”...
...In contrast, Anthropic’s decision to delay the release of its own chatbot avoided “stoking the flames of AI hype . . ....
...“We are encouraged by this positive development in the CMA’s review process,” said Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president....
...As Brad Setser predicted, the IMF required some adjustments to that agreement to make it compatible with its Zambian programme, but the bigger issue is that the country’s government creditors — primarily...
...The dividend, which was agreed to with Microsoft, is designed to ease concerns among Activision investors over the delays and uncertainty....
...Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, considered the development “positive for players, the progression of the cloud game streaming market, and the growth of our industry”....
...Also, Microsoft has also made one-off concessions in licensing negotiations with some customers to delay the impact of the new pricing formula....
...“In light of the challenging economic conditions, we’re delaying the start dates for some of our college hires by up to six months,” said Brad Glasser, an Amazon spokesman....
...“Chinese intransigence has unambiguously been holding things up,” said Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank and a former US Treasury official....
...The motion filed by Trump in a Washington court marks his latest attempt to delay the trials. Here is the Financial Times’s guide to who was charged in Willis’s sprawling 98-page indictment....
...There was a commitment to delay but not a commitment to discard.”...
...Brad Moss, a partner at the law firm Mark Zaid, said: “Time and again, the decision carves out exceptions to issues of jurisdiction and judicial authority premised on the idea that Mr Trump is a unique criminal...
...Last week, senator Joe introduced a bill to delay the handouts to try to stop the Europeans and Japanese getting their hands on them....
...“I think below the surface, there is a sort of coming-to-Jesus moment among some Republicans that Trump is just not going to get it done in 2024, and they need to go in a new direction,” says Brad Coker,...
...After all, if the IMF is to function properly, you’d think it would actively discourage financing from a creditor inclined to delay the IMF mobilising official financing packages....
...The data that is available — such as that cited in the Fed’s financial stability report — is only published with a delay of several months....
...Social media accompanies homework, displaces meeting up with friends and delays sleep....
...Brad Tilden, head of Alaska Airlines, left the company on March 31. “My guess is the pandemic bunched [the departures] together,” Parker said....
...It has been further hit by delays to deliveries of the 40m doses it ordered from Novavax, a US biotech company. “The Federal government was very late in ordering the vaccines....
...Brad Tank, chief investment officer for fixed income at Neuberger Berman, said in a note that the government was likely to “engineer a soft landing”....
...may rattle markets, but the economic impact will be limited by the recently passed stimulus bill, which will provide support for those laid off and help preserve confidence and purchasing power,” said Brad...
...The depths to which the president has sunk became even more apparent with the release of a taped conversation between Mr Trump and Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state....
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