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...The Biden administration’s pledge to begin distributing 400m high-quality N95 masks free of charge has drawn a mixed response from healthcare providers, trade unions and local manufacturers....
...Abroad, Lourenço has mounted a charm offensive in Europe and the US, seeking to drum up foreign investment and persuade western capitals that Angola is no longer a pariah state, nor as closely allied with...
...Around the same table, an accountant and a recruiter are comparing notes on the outlook for their businesses, while a pair of property consultants assess the local market....
...“There is no large domestic company here to push back and make the case for value and job creation....
...Encourage sales growth — and by this productivity, in local business activities including tourism, local services and start-ups....
...He has also read the history of the Soviet Union, where [Mikhail] Gorbachev essentially abandoned the party and helped to destroy the country — the Soviet Union....
...Locals are quick to point out that Eichstätt is no millionaire’s paradise: there is work and a decent salary for all, but no overt display of wealth....
...A bricklayer asked for £4,000 for a garden wall that the builder was demanding £12,000 for....
...“He is taking those buildings, no compensation. He’s going to spruce them up and make them available for communal housing.”...
...Demographics shifted and fashions changed, and by the 1400s, the well-off and well-bred no longer only read in French and Latin....
...In 1951, he struck a deal with Pininfarina to design the bodies, with aluminium being beaten into shape by craftsmen at the local coachbuilder Carrozzeria Scaglietti....
...When the Isaf mission ended, growth fell to 1.3 per cent and unemployment rose to a high of 40 per cent. Crime has soared....
...Nobody, no individual tycoon and no single business, however rich, has succeeded on their own....
...SSI spent $469m buying the Redcar blast furnace — Europe’s second-largest — and its allied Teesside Cast Products operation and has since invested at least $600m more....
...In the Baltics, on Russia’s doorstep, and in the shadow of a long and bloody history, the threat is felt most acutely. But it is no longer a purely local paranoia....
...The “soldiers” I met — from the allied and French “armies” — turned out to be meteorologists, Minnesotan schoolteachers, local government officials, security guards and bricklayers....
...“There is certainly local opposition,” said Gerd Landsberg, managing director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, a lobby group, noting the burden on local schools and housing....
...And it will press ahead with its long-term plan to undermine rivals and secure its market share “No one in Saudi thinks lower oil prices are good,” says one Riyadh-based western diplomat....
...The victory of the opposition rightist Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic over incumbent Ivo Josipovic – who is allied to Milanovic’s ruling Social Democrats – makes it likely that her Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ...
...Most of Germany’s great cities were devastated by Allied bombing and 14m German refugees were forced to flee their homes in central and eastern Europe....
...It also says the party would keep the Trident nuclear deterrent and encourage fracking when safe and supported by local communities....
...Its economy, powered by a thriving automotive industry and a European logistics hub at Leipzig-Halle airport, grew 0.3 per cent last year....
...“No one knows what ‘it’ is, but the market believed him and a lot of appetite has returned to the periphery and that has relieved the pressure.”...
...Hungary, which has the biggest gap between local deposit funding and local lending – with a loan-to-deposit ratio of 140 per cent – is the most extreme....
...A Trades Union Congress press release on September 8, 1986, captured many locals’ moods at that time....
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