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...Thasunda Brown Duckett, chief executive of retirement provider TIAA, has been talking for several years about a $4tn gap between what Americans need for old age and what they have saved....
...He said it would cost £1.3bn and take about nine years to achieve a 90 per cent rollout “for little concrete benefit”....
...“In the physical world, great buildings are linked to their architect while those who had poured the concrete or installed the windows are soon forgotten,” Buffett said....
...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway (WH Allen/Penguin Random House) Six key materials — sand (used for concrete), salt (for fertiliser), iron (and steel), copper (for...
...The Romans gave us underfloor heating and the oculus; we offer crumbling concrete, microplastics and an avalanche of Nespresso pods....
...Brand worked on spin-off Big Brother shows produced by Endemol, which was acquired by Banijay UK in 2020....
...My brother and sister immediately called me Deirdre Barlow, the Coronation Street character who wore comically large opticals in the 1980s....
...Behind them, the city of Potsdam spreads across the canvas in a mix of muted browns, greens, and yellow, and a grey sky hangs over it all....
...On one untitled 2022 canvas, a colossal second world war plane hovers ominously over a mysterious scene of two men sprinting down an asphalt road in the middle of the city....
...sighs newly-wed Rose as she surveys the view from her spanking new concrete block of flats. “I’d sooner have a lie-in,” replies her husband, Harry....
...Their orchard is modern, with netting suspended from square concrete poles and a solar-powered drip-irrigation system....
...“I think it’s a key moment,” said Adrian Whelan, global head of market intelligence at Brown Brothers Harriman....
...For men and women at Kamilombe like Françoise, who washes ore for $5 to $10 a day to support six children and three brothers, that change would make a world of difference....
...“As well as traditional lines like shoe polish, we’ve introduced trainer care — reflecting the move to more casual styles,” says Charlotte Brown, a buyer for John Lewis....
...Then the failure of Lehman Brothers drove the industry off a cliff, forcing European and US governments to fund taxpayer rescues....
...But the brothers have been fans of the action genre since their youth....
...He is still the biggest owner of DE Shaw (Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt owns 20 per cent, which he acquired from the Lehman Brothers estate), which is the fourth-highest grossing hedge fund in history...
...Remember when the street was being repaved and the asphalt was still wet, but that car drove down it and got stuck? — and forgot for a few minutes that we were under attack....
...“Being married to an art dealer [Ben Brown] and being surrounded by artists, I thought, ‘I’ll fix that.’”...
...Nearby, there is a vast, often-empty asphalt football pitch — an anomaly in a city of cramped childhoods....
...Concrete and asphalt may lack glamour but building materials are proving a rock-solid investment....
...Or you can make use of its concrete walkway that runs parallel to the sea. Surfers Against Sewage says Frinton has a good-quality rating but urges people to be informed....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...He “grew up with people drawing, my brothers drew”....
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