Hints and tips:
...In personal news, I’m about to take a week’s break — early December preparation for the festive season — so next Sunday my colleague Steffie Banatvala will be manning the good ship Week Ahead....
...James Manning Smith, senior analyst at the CCS Insight research firm, commented: “The new Xiaomi 12 Series phones tick all the boxes for consumers looking for a top-of-the range smartphone....
...That’s the astonishing advice from our prime minister, whose sudden decision to trigger the government’s Covid Plan B feels like the equivalent of a man shouting “look over there!”...
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...The comedian Bernard Manning performed at the opening of which influential nightclub in 1982? Which two ballroom dances feature in the Nato phonetic alphabet?...
...“I have no Plan B. I have €1m of debt. What am I supposed to do? Put a bullet in my head?” (Jim Brunsden, Mure Dickie, Victor Mallet and Laura Hughes, FT )...
...The results were part of the reason D&B chairman Tom Manning chewed out his own sales force on a conference call last year....
...Tom Manning put the “done” in Dun & Bradstreet....
...Mr Manning will continue to lead the company until the transaction is completed....
...“Where Isis controlled territory, PMU groups have emerged manning checkpoints so smugglers taking stuff through Turkey or Syria must go through them,” says an Iraqi analyst....
...But I already see that non-UK EU citizens are A, not applying, B, leaving the UK, and also the drop in the value of the pound hasn't helped....
...It is now a four-star B&B with five large rooms including the Caithness, at the top of the castle, which has impressive views over Loch Creran and the mountains of Glen Coe....
...Soon there were multiple paper routes, a painting business, and a job manning the lift at a nearby ski hill. “I wanted the independence. I wanted nice things....
...When US B-52s roared their engines above the Senkaku Islands last Tuesday, the Japanese government viewed the move as a loud and clear message to China over its new East China Sea air defence zone....
...But computers did not become self-aware in 1997 – the closest they managed was when Deep Blue, a B-list supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion....
...Lorne Baring, Managing Director, B Capital SA, Geneva, Switzerland...
...“If I was manning the radar, I would have about two minutes to react,” said Jim Jenkins, a guide at the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in the Colorado capital of Denver....
...“We knew what plans A, B, C and D were,” she says. “We had every option and that was deliberate.”...
...While the likes of Bernard Manning and Rob “Chubby” Brown set out to offend, many more are grounded in the tradition of family entertainment, rich in puns and double entendres....
...Kevin Houston, of Anderson Manning Associates, the direct marketing agency. William Hynett, chief executive, B-N, the aviation group. Stephen Jones, milliner. Nigel Kershaw, chairman, The Big Issue....
...How would we manage to negotiate a hiking holiday with a dog who not only a) couldn’t walk but b) couldn’t bear to be left alone?...
...A commitment to raise VAT; a further go at retirement ages; a quid-pro-quo on public sector pensions; perhaps further manning- and pay-freezes in the public sector....
...Although the previous night’s gale has calmed, there are deep puddles by the side of road and the trees in the B&B’s garden are twisted and buckled like skeletons in a catacomb....
...Modiin Ezrahi started manning checkpoints only last year – today it has about 200 of its guards stationed at sites around Jerusalem....
...Fox Interactive Media’s David Fischer – representing MySpace – was speaking at a panel session, but the social networking site was not manning any kind of stand. "I was a little disappointed....
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