Hints and tips:
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Nearly 17 per cent of shareholders in Aston Martin rebelled against the re-election of executive chair Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire Canadian who rescued the luxury carmaker last year....
...The same deference appeared to prevail in the North Carolina case, where a state elections board had extended ballot deadlines with the approval of a state court....
...I went back to the 2000 election. Al Gore, son of Tennessee, lost Tennessee. Lost the entire south, across the south. This is something that has been solidly Republican for a generation....
...Four swing states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina — have split party control. In each scenario, Mr Trump leverages his office to gain the upper hand....
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, on Wednesday suggested voters in North Carolina should stress-test the security of their elections systems by voting twice — an act that is illegal under US law....
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...The problem is worse today: given gerrymandering and voter suppression, states such as North Carolina and Georgia are no longer full democracies....
...Born in Pune, India, and raised in Mumbai, Sawant studied economics in North Carolina before becoming a software engineer at Nortel, the Canadian telecoms company....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Hurricanes, like all immense events, take you outside of time. Often there’s nothing to do but hunker down and get out the board games....
...The European economy, meanwhile, is in recovery mode, as reflected by a spate of strong first quarter real GDP prints posted this week across Emerging Europe in Poland, Hungary, Romania, et al....
...Indeed, it is hard now to sell a single EM beta story for big, liquid EM credits such as Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Russia and South Africa, et al, and even across regions....
...Critics charge that Mr Trump’s insistence that the election is “rigged” against him undermines a core tenet of democracy, while Mr Obama has ridiculed him for “whining” and noted that there is no credible...
...Around 80 per cent of the seats in the US’s 99 state legislative chambers are up for election too. In addition, Americans will be choosing city councillors, school board members and judges....
...GK Butterfield, the Democratic House of Representatives member from North Carolina who chairs the CBC political action committee, said: “We must have a president who is knowledgeable on both domestic and...
...Maureen Dowd of the New York Times flew all the way to North Carolina to wring a recantation out of the charismatic Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley, who had once praised Melania’s “impeccable...
...Authoritarianism and isolationism, and that, in essence, is what Mr Trump et al are offering, are not an answer....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...“It was as though I had defected from my own tribe to the tribe of Al Gore.”...
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