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...In his book Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, Marx traces this catalogue-like approach to a serendipitous encounter at a New York City Doubleday bookstore in the summer of 1969....
...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...The events of the murder trial were later dramatised in a 2016 FX television series, The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story....
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Drawing parallels with the highlife music that plays throughout the video, Turner points to the words of Ghana’s “king of highlife”, ET Mensah....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...So does Blackstone’s default on a €531mn loan backed by a Finnish office portfolio and Blackstone, KKR et al, limiting real estate investment trust redemptions....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...It retells the established adventures of Odin, Thor, Loki et al, alongside brand-new ones set in the present day....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...HMZ House by Lucio Muniain et al; lmetal.com.mx...
...Prepared by Malcolm J Merriweather, the Summer for the City Chorus was superb....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...city renovates its central station....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...shift of the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
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