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...“We want to set a mark to start the great textile shift,” Dennis Nobelius, chief executive of Syre, told the Financial Times. “It’s really needed. All polyester is made from oil....
...They are able to travel in complete secrecy and often have strong relationships with the host intelligence services built over time,” said Dennis Wilder, a former CIA China expert who also served as the...
...He wants KT&G to appoint Cha Suk-yong, chief executive of leading domestic cosmetics group LG H&H, and Hwang Ou-jin, the former head of Prudential Life Insurance, as outside directors....
...Last week Boeing warned it would burn more cash in the first quarter than previously expected because of the crisis. Boeing shares were up 1.5 per cent on Monday....
...Left hand, little finger: Hermès silver H Ex Libris signet ring, £1,100....
...Dennis Wilder, a former China expert at the CIA, noted that Beijing had captured two CIA officers in the country in the 1950s, which was revealed later....
...We seem to be in the midst of a mini banking crisis that neither blazes out of control, nor burns out. It just smoulders on. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Higher temperatures could even end up boosting natural gas prices further down the line, the bank reckons: Over the past several years, droughts – reducing hydro power generation and increasing natural gas burn...
...“There’s a lot of work to be done here as the cash burn is hefty,” she said. “He is saying the right things but he has a big challenge ahead of him.”...
...“Frieze [in New York] seemed more of a slow burn than a one-day frenzy but I think the best works sold as expected,” says Miami-based art adviser Lisa Austin....
...“You burn people out.”...
...The Financial Times reported that CIA director Bill Burns secretly visited China in May....
...Order book protection that supports sales over the next few months will burn away to nothing, so consensus expectations of the trough being hit next year are “far too optimistic”, Berenberg says....
...A fifth of these deaths could be averted if rates of speeding and seatbelt-wearing matched peer countries, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
...Drug overdoses have played a large role in the widening gulf between the US and its peers over life expectancy, explains chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...CIA chief William Burns also came and told the Bolsonaro administration not to mess with the elections....
...People are really playing with fire because if they get it wrong, they’re gonna burn down the economy and the financial markets in a way they won’t recover for decades....
...This is compared to Band 2 roles in the NHS which are being advertised with a starting salary of £9.65p/h, Band 3 roles at £10.40p/h and Band 4 roles at £11.53p/h....
...Academics Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz say it’s time to “let crypto burn”....
...Bank of America published this half-serious chart last month (h/t Brent Donnelly): The whole sector is wobbling. Kraken, a major exchange, laid off 30 per cent of staff on Wednesday....
...A former head of the US Special Forces, Admiral William H McRaven served in dangerous missions as a Navy Seal for 37 years. He also ran the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011....
...UK, Burns Night celebrations in honour of Scotland’s national poet Thursday Australia, Australia Day national holiday India, Republic Day national holiday UK, first edition of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter...
...figure is poet and actress Greta Bellamacina, painted by Isabella Watling, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists – who has exhibited at the BP Portrait Award and is a teacher at the prestigious Charles H...
Central bank chair’s support for deregulation has weakened the financial system
...Their UFO-like creations were also stupidly strong, able to withstand wind speeds beyond 130km/h (their Mavericks group tent can withstand 180km/h winds)....
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