Hints and tips:
...As humans, we see our own biological pathos in strandings too....
...Audax still owns a quarter of the company’s equity through $140mn that was rolled into the HIG buyout, a fact it says proves it had little incentive to cheat HIG....
...Who cares if Alex Honnold climbs whichever rock it is faster than someone else? All that matters is that he survived the climb recorded in Free Solo. It was him versus death....
...We’re like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.” The Lekdijk Bovendams bond, like the Tucks, is a rock, stuck in the stream of Dutch history....
...It's entirely possible that the Moon's commercial economy will simply be about making life a little more comfortable for those staying in the bases. Services like streaming Netflix or supplying coffee....
...“If the man [his mother’s biological father] was local, and he probably was, I could have had brothers and sisters running around.”...
...“An entire new generation of investors may well have come of age never having actually experienced an economic downturn, a protracted market downdraft, or interest rates above rock-bottom levels,” he wrote...
...Many in the audience were decades her junior and the mood was more rock concert than lecture as a voice over the loudspeaker announced, “The one and only — Shanna. Fucking. Swan!”...
...“You’re fairly certain you have become some kind of biological mutation, you are no longer a mere mortal”: this is Dylan’s unhinged interpretation of Domenico Modugno’s pop-operatic ditty “Volare”, the Italian...
...The idea of carbon reduction gets little plutocratic attention compared with infinitely splashier carbon-capture technologies....
...One creditor called the $16.5bn LBO a “bull-market deal” that made little sense now....
...US interest rates were cut to zero, elevating the market for multiples of stocks with little in the way of earnings but strong growth prospects....
...Grant’s pair of lovers, one with cocked leg, reappear as black men in a black and white photo, light gleaming off buttocks and thighs, assertive and also a little ironic....
...“The opportunity set is substantial because there is very little capital allocated to this type of trading. It’s wide open.”...
...“We drilled into the rock like a cheese and created this support apparatus,” she says. A state-of-the-art heating-cooling-ventilation system was also put in....
...Chase Coleman has shown little interest in changing his stripes....
...Junk debt-financed takeovers, fuelled by an era of rock-bottom interest rates, are now a more than $4tn market....
...Smart reads Levelling up A hitherto obscure lender, Little Rock’s Bank OZK, has become one of the most prolific lenders to Manhattan property developers....
...“We have so little tolerance for regulatory risk,” he adds....
...A motor causes a steel rod to poke a rock, which teeters a little, then settles again with a quiet thud. The procedure repeats relentlessly, with a mesmeric, musical quality....
...That is, they have very little power to influence the direction of the business....
...The idea was to study how biological communities would establish themselves, and to record what he saw....
...Some of my happiest memories with her involved scouring beach rocks for periwinkles, collecting blackberries from hedgerows and combing Dartmoor bushes for bilberries, which we stored in old plastic tubs...
...He made similar points in written evidence submitted to the court last week as part of Dakota Access LLC’s argument to keep the pipeline open....
...Haldane drew on the work of Lord Robert May, who had shown how biological ecosystems could reach a tipping point of interconnectivity where they went from being robust to fragile....
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