Hints and tips:
...The Canadian government said it would provide C$8.4m (US$6.7m) to pay for upgrades to the dyke and drainage system surrounding the airport to help protect the airport from rising waters and storms....
...Greg Dyke, then chairman of the FA, had told me in 2013: “It could be that there’s just not a pathway through. There are a lot of bog-standard foreign players playing here today.”...
...On the way we hear about George Washington’s prophetic obsession with the strategic importance of the Ohio river, and the fatal decision by Chiang Kai-shek, China’s nationalist leader, to breach the dykes...
...I ask if the staff address him as C. Absolutely, he says, and that goes for the prime minister too....
...Into his bag goes a second-hand paperback of John C Van Dyke’s 1901 The Desert. The cumulative effect of so much reading is an account of remarkable scope and depth....
...A week’s all-inclusive trip including flights from Goose Bay and a helicopter excursion costs C$9,788 (£4,800)....
...Milne was forced out under pressure from the Conservative government over a programme made by the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell about a secretly funded spy satellite programme; in 2004 Greg Dyke...
...Greg Dyke, former BBC director-general, accused Mr Baldwin of having been “all but a mouthpiece” for Downing Street....
...He then signs his foreword in the hallowed tradition of MI6 – using the letter “C,” for chief, in bright green ink....
...England have ever attained the canonical status of Bede or Trevelyan, and the best put-down to what has all too often been a formulaic, parochial and self-satisfied genre remains 1066 and All That by W.C....
...For example, in the Netherlands, Siemens engineers are developing a system for monitoring dykes using industrial sensors originally designed in the group’s Russian operation....
...Then, in 1901, art historian John C Van Dyke published The Desert, in which he argued that these arid wastes might be viewed as a new topographic category of the sublime....
...Imagine the organisation’s security perimeter as a dyke....
...P.C. Hooftstraat 3, tel: +31 20676 0232, www.hotelpatou.nl RESTAURANTS Hotel de Goudfazant Despite its name, this is a restaurant....
...It does suggest though that Mudlark has been wrong to speculate that Allen is destined to join the likes of Greg Dyke in the private equity business. A government adviser job clearly awaits....
...The bonds marked for possible downgrades are all the Class C notes issued by Egg through its Pillar funding vehicle since 2002, which are in dollars, euros and sterling and hold Baa2 ratings....
...Jennifer Millerwise Dyke, CIA spokeswoman, says Mr Goss had made important strides at the agency, including expanding the national clandestine service in terms of personnel and field operations....
...Greg Dyke is fronting the consortium. ITV, after quite a lot of thought, has turned the proposal down but do not expect that to be the last of it....
...Newsom is an idiosyncratic performer, but her music, which features orchestral arrangements by Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson’s collaborator on Smile, is entrancing and utterly original....
...John F Dyke, Guernsey Chuka Umunna: John, nowhere in my article do I advocate “quotas” or “raising ethnic minorities to positions above those more competent”....
...In the 1960s, after Hurricane Betsy dumped 10cm of rain on the city and killed 81 people, the federal government ordered the construction of a series of dykes....
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