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...The UK’s energy regulator has commissioned a probe into power company Drax’s compliance with sustainability rules, after growing external scrutiny of the wood it burns to generate electricity....
...Blackstone owes the University of California twice as much as it did last quarter as part of a complex transaction to shore up its flagship real estate fund....
...Johnson also moved to shore up support for his position within the party. On April 12, he travelled to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with Trump....
...No two matches burn the same way, and the hand that wields them is clean but not impartial. Its fingertips refuse to let go till the wood burns all the way through....
...lapped those really strong 2022 figures coming out of the pandemic, the feeling we had was that the cost of living crisis was likely to affect younger families,” said Greg Johnson, leisure equity analyst at Shore...
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...“The company’s credit metrics were extremely weak in 2023,” S&P said, estimating that Atos had adjusted leverage of 10 times and cash burn of more than €1bn....
...Fortunately, with more than £600mn of cash and equivalents still to burn through it can keep chugging on for a while yet, writes Julian Hofmann....
...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...Towards the end of our interview, he mentions, “I wanted to have a giant bonfire and burn my entire archives....
...European capitals are racing to raise $1.5bn in emergency funding to provide Ukraine with ammunition to shore up the front lines....
...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...The then-Conservative government urgently needed to shore up confidence and establish its inflation-busting credentials....
...For the ancients, this fossilised tree resin was a mysterious material washed up on distant shores....
...However, the bank is now suffering from a slowdown in VC funding, a cash burn at many of its clients and losses on investments it made when rates were at rock-bottom levels....
...So if you happen to have an empty exhibition space, friends in South Kensington and a million quid to burn, we should talk....
...German authorities have pledged more than €6bn in subsidies to steelmakers in a bid to shore up Europe’s largest industrial base, which is already struggling with high energy prices and falling global demand...
...Rakuten’s priority should be to shore up cash and improve its credit rating. The mobile carrier business is a secondary issue....
...But my daughter’s wide-eyed thrill as tensions mounted at the fictional North Shore High seemed slightly bittersweet, given the real-life social terrors being visited daily on teenagers via the WhatsApp...
...“It is the hangover after the party,” said Fiona Czerniawska, chief executive of Source Global Research, as firms look to shore up profits by putting a cap on salary inflation....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...When the V&A asked Mugrabi if she would subsidise the programme for 10 years, she chose to start with three....
...Silicon Valley Bank shares plunged 60 per cent on Thursday, a day after launching a $2.25bn stock sale to shore up its balance sheet as it grapples with declining deposits from technology start-ups....
...Visitors to the Athens festival saw performances by past protégés, which ranged from a recital of her work Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores by American actress Whitney White (mentored between 2020 and 2022...
...In a move that could shore up the company financially, Byju’s has decided on a flotation next year for Aakash, the exam coaching institute it bought for $1bn in 2021....
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