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...Estate agent Barfoot & Thompson projected the volume of sales would fall to about 60 per cent of last year’s levels....
...The decision to go after Geo, which has a market value of $2.5bn, reflected concern over prison inmates and asylum seekers, said Pat Zerega, senior director of shareholder advocacy at Mercy Investment Services...
...He taught Emma Thompson. He taught Roberto Benigni. And he taught me. He tried his best, truly....
...The majority, it's a little over 2,000, 2,500. But the Lib Dem vote in the last election was 4,401, one of the places where the Lib Dems didn't actually take a complete battering....
...With more than 2.8bn people flying each year — and by 2023 over half projected to be aged over 50 — the volume of problems is only set to rise....
...The S&P 500 is up 8.5 per cent this year, outperforming both global and emerging market indices: With Thompson Reuters reporting earnings are due to be up 24.9 per cent from Q2 2017, following an equally...
...At the very top of the structure is Altice’s “topco” — the entity at which its Netherlands-listed shares sit and which has more than €2.3bn of debt....
...Studies subsequently found that more than 90 per cent of inmates relapsed after leaving the farm....
...Investors who avoided the shares because of a dual-class structure subsequently missed out on a 2,000 per cent return....
...(FT, Reuters) Italian lender slashes jobs Monte dei Paschi, the troubled Italian lender, has said it will cut 2,500 jobs and shut 500 branches as part of its latest survival plan....
...The agency’s mission at the end of the war is to seize the Nazis’ unfired V-2 missiles and their creator, Wernher von Braun....
...(FT) Electric motorcycles are coming American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is known for chrome, freedom and big, beefy V-twin engines — but soon, it will also be known for something very different...
...By Jennifer Thompson Singaporean executives were the highest paid in Asia last year, while the Hong Kong-China pay gap narrowed....
...In Catholicism, for example, Vatican V.2 is still to be adopted by Mel Gibson (allegedly). While in Bitcoin right this very minute the great BitcoinXT civil war is under way....
...Last year, GDP grew by 2.2%. The OBR now forecast it will grow by 2% this year, then 2.2% again in 2017, and then 2.1% in each of the three years after that....
...Even Harley-Davidson is testing opinion among its notoriously change-resistant enthusiasts for a prototype electric motorcycle, the LiveWire....
...And the longer you stay here – thanks to the 2,400m altitude – the better your fitness and stamina should be when you return to lower elevations....
...ULA has stockpiled two years’ worth of RD180s for launches – and could switch more launches from the Atlas V to its more old-fashioned but wholly US-sourced Delta rockets....
...Christina Pelka caught the travel bug as a Californian schoolgirl holidaying in Cuba....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Of the 2.3m people in the US prison system, around 80 per cent are sentenced for non-violent, drug-related crimes, says Jiler....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...“The operational results are mixed,” said Andy Davidson, an analyst at Numis Securities....
...Scott Thompson, the internet portal’s chief executive, laid out new strategic plans but remained tight-lipped over plans for a sale....
...The Rocket III, for example, with its 2,300cc engine, outdoes most in the big and wide stakes....
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