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...Not since Leonard Bast, the impoverished autodidact killed by a collapsing bookshelf in EM Forster’s Howard’s End, had household furniture been used so murderously in English literature to symbolise the...
...you know that with the local government in Clark County and Las Vegas....
...If you can’t beat ’em, amend ’em....
...A sovereign county is a unique debtor. It is very difficult to force a country to do anything....
...Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Houston-based investment banker and art collector, has given 200 photographs by 90 European female artists jointly to New York’s Brooklyn Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of...
...He stood, as the novelist EM Forster wrote, “at a slight angle to the universe”. Travelling, if we are prepared to enter other people’s lives, shifts our angle too....
...Latterly, a Studebaker Avanti with an incongruous Home-Counties-style badge-bar. Meanwhile, the real-life spy Kim Philby drove a grim Humber from the Ministry of Defence carpool....
...Absentee ballots, once counted in local wards, are now processed at the county level....
...Tesla released a “return to work” playbook over the weekend, hours after it sued the county to reopen....
...Across the US, counties and states are now suing pharmaceutical companies, desperate to recoup the cost of treating and policing those hooked on their drugs....
...With a drop of more than 10 per cent last Thursday alone, Argentina displaced Turkey as the worst-performing (relatively widely traded) currency in emerging markets this year — and this for a county that...
...About 300,000 new passports were issued to Jinjiang residents last year — the local public security bureau said this was the most of any county-level city in China — as they join a large and growing flow...
...Why Westchester County is known for its leafy suburban enclaves....
...This is probably a more pertinent question for end investors — perhaps the pensioners (imagine a public sector worker in a US state or a UK county council) whose funds are being invested in Russia....
...several reasons: it has sufficient open data to produce credible statistics; there are enough qualified people to analyse the figures; and, following the devolution of many government functions to the 47 counties...
...An official in Xixian county in Shanxi, one of China’s poorest provinces, said more than 500 passport applications had been received since the start of this year, versus about 400 last year, and that the...
...In Cabell county, in the western corner of West Virginia, 10 per cent of people are estimated to be fighting some sort of addiction, says Steve Williams, mayor of Huntington, which lies in the county....
...Huawei launched a “thousand counties” initiative at the end of last year to expand to more than 1,000 small cities and rural areas in China by 2017....
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...strong brand loyalty in second- and third-tier cities, where it has more than 95 per cent geographical coverage, thanks to its 70,000 distributors, 15,000 specialty stores and 45,000 points of sale at county...
...He knows little about overseas markets but sees no alternative given that his political supporters, including the county Communist party head, are in prison....
...In Xishui county in central Hubei province, the number of hog farms with more than 100 pigs has dropped from over 100 to just four over the past five years....
...According to court documents, Yaxin Textile in central Zhejiang’s Wuyi county was last month able to offer creditors two solutions: take seven cents on the dollar and walk away, or swap all their debt into...
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