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...Additional reporting by Caitlin Gilbert and Steff Chávez in New York and James Politi in Washington and Claire Bushey in Chicago...
...Starliner was launched last Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked at the ISS the next day....
...Our biggest problem was that the V-shaped spring back to recovery did not materialise and that our shipping pipeline became erratic and undependable....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...about ‘Qataxit’ Washington may bluster but cannot stifle the Chinese economy Even trying to do so risks strengthening the most anti-American elements in Beijing Lex: UK property websites — Right move v...
...Last year these included a pair of 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France (sold for £9.3m) and a Jiaqing period dinner service (c1805, $1.1m)....
...I highly commend Paul Collier’s book “Exodus” to anyone who wishes to understand the issues involved....
...Plus: why Dilma snubbed Barack; Samsung v HTC; Chávez’s shadow; and Ukraine should fall into the EU’s lap....
...- Roach v. Pettis (on China). - A flat ECB learning curve. - Government debt, inflation and money. - On a wing and a credit card. - Chavez’s gold bet. - Das Wort “Shitstorm”....
...Shakespeare would later praise Essex directly as “the General of our gracious Empress” in Henry V, enshrining his connection with these English kings....
...Mr Correa may now be trying to step into Chávez’s shoes. “One gets the impression from Mr Correa’s behaviour that sometimes he wants to out-Chávez Chávez,” said a Latin American diplomat....
...“She is a curvy girl and quite petite, so it was important to show her bump,” says Chavez....
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...(Financial Times) Sweden’s Hakon Invest is acquiring the 60 per cent of shares it doesn’t own in Nordic food retailer ICA AB for 20 billion Swedish kronor ($3.1 billion) from Royal Ahold N.V....
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...The choice is yours, Chávez....
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...There’s nothing Hugo Chávez likes more than to shake his fist at the private sector. Nationalising businesses is one of his favourite pastimes, with his Queen-of-Hearts-like cry of “expropriate it!”...
...- China’s nappy war: Mamy Poko v Pampers & Huggies....
...Los de Abajo Actitud Calle (Wrasse) The hyper-politicised Mexico City ska punks take up where they left off on 2005’s LDA v The Lunatics....
...Chavez said Sunday.”How do you think, Obama, that I am going to accept that gentleman as ambassador?”...
...Note Chavez’s call to Arab nations last week for support on the creation of an oil-backed currency to challenge the US dollar....
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