Hints and tips:
...I approached the volume gingerly: I love Heaney’s sublime poems and dreaded discovering that my idol was mean to fans or petty to publishers. I needn’t have worried....
...The composers — Cassandra Miller, Laurence Crane and Linda Catlin Smith — make a complementary trio....
...Cassandra burnt most of her large collection....
...But Turchin is not the only contemporary Cassandra; even hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio, another believer in cyclical shifts, is warning that rising inequality could create social explosions....
...There is a nasty suspicion that rates will stay higher for longer — as those Cassandras down at the Federal Reserve have long warned — or, worse, might rise another notch or two....
...Investors fear what buoyant US and Chinese economies, as well as persistent inflation in Europe, mean for interest rates....
...“All this ecosystem goes hand in hand, more tech investors means more tech companies. All this creates a virtuous cycle.”...
...For Cassandra Metcalfe, a 38-year-old restaurant manager in Hove whose electricity bill jumped from £25 to £110 a month, it has meant changing her personal living arrangements....
...When a new technology emerges, there are often Cassandras warning about its potential dangers....
...That means your music. Working-class music.”...
...Housing market Cassandras (and there are plenty) point to the high inventory of party-constructed new homes that is stuck in the supply chain: The number of new homes either permitted for construction or...
...“It doesn’t mean that Richard doesn’t do terrible and evil things,” he adds. “It just changes the view....
...With hindsight, Fancy looks less like a heretic and more like ESG’s Cassandra....
...That these are just the croakings of a Cassandra....
...Insufficient testing means losing sight of the virus....
...Now, we both worry that tightening into a slowdown will mean higher unemployment, and also rock markets in ways that will become a big headwind to growth. This is actually the fundamental issue....
...Meetings “IRL” mean you can read someone’s body language that you would miss on a flat screen....
...We needn’t have worried as the Swiss stepped in three times over,” says Cassandra Levene, a sales executive at estate agent Alpine Homes in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, which is popular for its upmarket...
...Local affairs mean a lot here....
...The Cassandras were partly right: in early March, the market for corporate bonds did indeed freeze....
...That said, The Deep is a stodgy read, by no means as compelling as its predecessor....
...Grant, SydneyWith salons in Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and – occasionally – Paris, the facialist Melanie Grant is almost as jet-set as her clients (Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Smalls and Cassandra...
...However, that means more demanding valuations for new investors....
...Well, those Cassandras will be feeling pretty pleased with their predictive powers today because . . ....
...Cassandra is unimpressed....
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