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...HOLD: JD Wetherspoon (JDW) Sales growth rates have outperformed the market for almost a year and a half, writes Christopher Akers....
...Over on mainFT, Christopher Grimes reports: Transparency on streaming services was a central issue during this year’s Hollywood strikes....
...Erina Takahashi, five parts silk chiffon, five parts carbon steel, was a fleet, sweet heroine partnered by Francesco Gabriele Frola....
...“I actually think we have achieved the sweet spot of where you want to be.” Additional reporting by Antoine Gara in New York...
...Catholicism did not stick, but the holiday did, as did fastelavnsbolle, the sweet treat associated with the festival....
...Isabella Gasparini and Leticia Dias were sharp and sweet as the heroine’s friends....
...Opened just in time to offer sweet and characterful accommodation is Ninù, a restaurant-with-rooms on the Via della Frezza....
...“Multiple pundits suggested that I’d soon be making at least a million dollars off of sweet, sweet subscriptions. This did not happen,” he wrote in a Substack post. “Over seven months on Substack . . ....
...Few individuals since Christopher Wren in the 17th century or John Nash at the turn of the 19th have left such a personal footprint on the map of London....
...More traditional portrayals came from Dominic Sedgwick’s elegantly sung Albert and Iria Perestrelo’s sweet Sophie, and conductor Christopher Hopkins mostly kept the pace swift, no dawdling for sentimentality...
...And her father, Tony Curtis, was in Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe and The Sweet Smell of Success, and many other great films....
...“It is sweet and bitter.” Iacobescu shows no bitterness about his early hardships. He once planned to become a doctor like his father....
...Every year she brings 10-20 African-American women to the ballet – this year to Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate. “It’s important for the dancers to see diversity too,” she says....
...“A late imperial architecture . . . suddenly becomes [Ghanaian], through Nkrumah’s Africanisation policy,” says the V&A’s Christopher Turner, who has curated the exhibition alongside Biamah-Ofosu and Bushra...
...Bess bought the tapestries from the heir of Sir Christopher Hatton, lord chancellor of England, who had died in 1591 leaving considerable debts....
...“In contrast, Europe appears to be in a sweet spot right now,” the bank added....
...It was sickly sweet, like a cheap perfume at the drug store, only more nauseating. It was May 2 2023, and Arno had arrived in Prague the night before, on part of a European tour....
...The popular idea of a “sweet spot” between two carefully positioned stereo speakers has been around since the late ’50s....
...Ionbhá is a sweet-minded book of essays featuring teachers, youth workers and sportspeople, plus creative figures such as The Edge and Murphy himself. But what is empathy?...
...Her case had been assigned to a solid, smart judge, Christopher Cooper. Gold looked him up. It was Casey Cooper, the guy who asked her out when they were in law school....
...Chance Jonas-O’Toole, a sweet-voiced tenor, did Du Yun’s “Zolle”, an excerpt in Italian from her 2005 opera of that name; and Nicole Thomas, a mezzo, was telling in the Reid....
...Not that it’s entirely Gallic: Christopher Columbus was the first European to set foot here in 1493, naming it after his brother Bartholomew....
...“This whole notion that somehow it’s going to be sweet and gentle and no one’s ever gonna be surprised, I think is a mistake,” he said on the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings call....
...Christopher Maltman, replacing Peter Mattei, makes a solid, nuanced Count....
...Last week was the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, when Jewish people attend synagogue, say prayers of remembrance and repentance and eat apple and honey to represent the promise of a sweet and fruitful 12...
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