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...Financial markets closed South Korea: preliminary Q1 GDP figures US: preliminary Q1 GDP figures Results: Airbus Q1, Aker Solutions Q1, Alphabet Q1, American Airlines Q1, AstraZeneca Q1, Barclays Q1, BNP...
...In the Ottoman-Venetian rapport we witness not so much a “clash of civilisations” (although both sides sometimes chose to couch it in those terms) as a messily intimate family quarrel....
...The craving for company will always be balanced by a desire to flop on to the couch....
...Aker BP’s current liquidity headroom of ~$3.7bn compares to Lundin’s $1.3bn, whilst we forecast Aker BP’s net debt/EBITDA to remain below 2.0x even in 2020....
...Levete, dressed casually in a white shirt and jeans, wedges herself into a corner of the couch, tucking her bare feet beneath her, with me on the other. I immediately feel at home....
...The People v Harvey Weinstein has been rife with drama. Women have told harrowing stories, choking through sobs....
...Despite the 2/3 cut to the quarterly DPS, dividends remain a key part of Aker BP’s shareholder value philosophy....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Enquest and Aker BP go onto the “buy” list “as the levered cashflow winners”....
...In front of the screen stands Freud’s carpet-draped couch: just a few years on from Breuer and Freud’s studies of hysteria, the opera was a potent mash-up of new thinking — psychoanalysis, gender and the...
...Meanwhile, as I write, the small addict’s 13-year-old sister — I’ll call her the big addict — is sprawled languorously across a couch....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...Instead of jumping from a desk by the window to a couch near the lift, they are hopping between desks that are continents apart....
...So why not take to the couch? “Works have been my therapy, so far. Making a new work . . ....
...“And when I saw the Bouroullec couch we showed at Kreo in 2008, I wanted to live with it. It’s like a small house.”...
...When Evan Wolfson bought his Greenwich Village apartment in 1996, he had barely enough time to move in before catching a plane to Hawaii to serve as co-counsel on Baehr v Miike....
...Sergio Aguero’s goal 23 seconds after coming on for Man City v Liverpool is the quickest.” That is a lot to digest, let alone remember....
...But they had time for relaxation: the Temple of Venus, with a pleasuring couch and wall paintings too risqué to have been recorded, was part of Kent’s Garden of Love....
...“It bothers me a lot that you want to . . . broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” he told the woman, who goes by the name of V Stiviano....
...well advanced down her nose, a small amount of cleavage revealed by her designer V-neck sweater....
...As a cider-drinking couch potato who gets breathless on a Boris bike and whose tennis racket is so out of use that the wood has warped, I reckoned myself the ideal test subject....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...His latest album, Raymond v Raymond, is his third successive US number one. It’s inspired by the singer’s divorce after a marriage lasting less than two years....
...And my current ladywife – who’s gone on a bender and is unconscious on the couch....
...The 1940s couch that I found tossed out in the street and had restored. A leather patchwork rug that I bought cheaply on the roadside....
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