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...Passengers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport are greeted by another billboard. Adverts opposing the rules are popping up in podcasts and television shows....
...A: 63% (nearest 10pc allowed) Who signed the National Currency Act into law in 1863?...
...Business A huge rise in US government spending will boost the world’s largest economy over at least the next two years, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase forecast....
...Since then, UBS and JPMorgan Chase have increased existing stakes to 51 per cent....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...(FT) A train to Yucatán A 1,460km, $7.9bn railroad through the heart of Mayan territory could carry more than 8,000 passengers a day to some of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations....
...Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to...
...JPMorgan Chase began committing some of its research effort to quantum computing two years ago....
...national flag carrier....
...Philippine National Railways....
...At least this meant that the stragglers got to see the chase for the Jubilee Cup at the racecourse....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...More passengers come aboard and deck after deck is added. The story culminates in a fold-out revealing the entire bus in all its 100-storey glory....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
...Minorities Development and Finance Corporation and Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Minorities....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Around the same time, Sir Fred Goodwin of Royal Bank of Scotland mounted a takeover of National Westminster Bank in the UK....
...Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery...
...FT: Tougher than running a corporation? MR SMITH: I don’t think it’s tougher, I think it’s different. FT: But if you were asked?...
...In the last year’s pre-budget report, he increased taxes on air passengers, but without corresponding tax cuts elsewhere as we would do....
...National Express, which told investors it faced higher fuel costs within its bus division as it confirmed existing profit guidance, fell 1.7 per cent to 905½p....
...His own father worked as a porter on the trains on the Frisco tracks that ran through Tulsa, carrying passengers from St Louis to San Francisco....
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