Hints and tips:
...To break the ice, I asked him what he thought of Liz Truss: a polite version of his reply would be that she had shinned her way up the tree like a squirrel....
...Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the CBI employers’ body, said that while the white paper was a “step forward, particularly on goods”, she was worried about the impact of a looser regulatory arrangement on services...
...His audience may have greeted the speech with polite applause, but the CBI should give the business secretary’s admonition short shrift....
...In Germany, people are very polite, so it’s a bit similar to Japan. Here, I find that people are not very polite. When I first came here I was quite shocked....
...People are so kind there, so polite. When you go to a shop to buy something they say “thank you”, they look after you. You can walk in the mountains, pick wild raspberries and blueberries....
...His wife, Carolyn, is a member of the Pease family, who sold their bank to Barclays in 1902, and he joined the bank partly at the urging of his father-in-law, then a board member....
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