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...The Worcester-based company has previously attracted scrutiny from short sellers and sceptical analysts. Since 2020 it has counted Koch Industries as a shareholder....
...Which work was first performed in its usual present form at the 1899 Worcester Three Choirs Festival? Ramallah is which territory’s seat of government?...
...Charles Waldheim, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, says South Florida is “not a place where you would locate a city for any rational reason”....
...But The Dictionary Wars is about one war above all: that waged by Webster, and by George and Charles Merriam, the publishers who eventually gained control of his dictionary, against Joseph Worcester, a reserved...
...Andy Thompson Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...In 1834, an article in a Massachusetts periodical accused Joseph Worcester, Webster’s mild-mannered rival, of “gross plagiarism”....
.../ From Andy Thompson, Worcester Park, Surrey, UK One for you, more than 19 for the taxman / From Tom Lines, Brighton, UK...
...Charles Enoch proposes a US tax rate of “at least 97 per cent” for personal incomes above $500m (“Take a convex approach to resetting the tax system”, Letters, February 8). This isn’t new....
...The festival, now in its 23rd year, features more than 160 events in venues around the city centre, including the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre and Worcester College....
...And in the year that Scotland’s most revered early modern building, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, burnt down (again), there is nothing north of the border either....
...“There’s that Prince Charles story,” says Sandelson. “He gave his goddaughter India Hicks a dinner service, but over 20 years, adding to it every year.”...
...William Bigelow Worcester, MA, US...
...the Commons in the political arena / From Michael Power, Investec Asset Management QE, fiscal policy and the expanding universe / From Andy Thompson, Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...Georgetown University, and a former special assistant for national security affairs to President Barack Obama Letters in response to this article: Crimea’s status must not be ignored / From William Bigelow, Worcester...
...the battle of Worcester in 1651, including the famous hiding place in the oak tree....
...Other charges incurred by the Prince of Wales within the UK include a £16,362 trip to visit Stoke-on-Trent on the royal train, and £19,578 for another royal train journey from Windsor to Worcester....
...Richardson’s well-informed narrative and Andrew Lawson’s superb pictures conjure the gardens at their peak, from my colleague Robin Lane Fox’s “Euro-grass”-free border of colour and form at New College to Worcester...
...At Royal Doulton, graffiti artists including Pure Evil (real name Charles Uzzell Edwards) have put their brand of streetwise imagery on to a new sell-out range called “Street Art”....
...Shelley Stephenson of Knight Frank’s Worcester office says the property is just waiting for the right buyers to renovate it to today’s standards. Source: Knight Frank …………………………………………………………….....
...Rod Price, Worcester Park, Surrey, UK...
...Charles de Rohan, who runs one such company, The Binding Site, which employs 380 people making diagnostic tests, has already worked with Prof Craddock on a number programmes....
...By 1937, Harrisson had formed a partnership with the poet Charles Madge and the filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, and Mass Observation was born....
...William Gaunt makes the Earl of Worcester, who has one crucial strategic moment in the events leading to the battle of Shrewsbury, plausible in his weary mistrust of the king; and then delivers a lovely...
...state, is taken away in favour of a sleek art deco writing desk made in France or a stark modernist dressing table ordered from Berlin; dinner services of hundreds of pieces arrived from Spode and Royal Worcester...
...In the 1930s, the company had to be rescued by Charles Dyson Perrins, the philanthropist, who kept the factory afloat by paying staff wages out of his own pocket....
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