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...I’m biased of course, but the Financial Times has been knocking the ball out of the park with big stories lately, from Jamie Dimon to Credit Suisse to SVB....
...This week’s came from nowhere — another surprise from a Saudi energy minister, Abdulaziz bin Salman, who has developed a penchant for throwing curve balls at the oil market....
...The annual ritual amounts to a random ping-pong ball selection to determine the order in which the league’s lowest-performing teams choose the next crop of rookie talent....
...And so we have to deal with the challenges of today while keeping our eye on the ball for where we need to be in the future.”...
...So really your crystal ball has to be looking out a couple of years.” What are longer-term solutions?...
...“If Opec+ is unwilling to play ball and make those losses up, IEA stock releases are all that is left.” Farren-Price warns that the market response could be “underwhelming”. 4....
...The futures curve is no crystal ball, but it does show that the market right now is betting on cheaper oil in the future....
...They have also accused the companies of failing to play ball with their requests for documents ahead of the hearing....
...For author and journalist Derek Blasberg, the redesign of his Upper East Side apartment presented an opportunity to build a space to retreat to....
...Derek Brower is the FT’s US energy editor. derek.brower@ft.com Simon Kuper is away Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...She became the first little person to attend the Met Gala Ball in 2019; she sits on the advisory board of Chime For Change, the campaign that promotes gender equality founded by Gucci....
...Experts credit the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to strong evidence, an appropriate mix of charges and bountiful legal resources....
...Endnote A sweeping climate bill introduced by House Democrats this week sets the ball rolling to convert some of Joe Biden’s ambitious environmental targets into law....
...“It was a disappointment,” says Derek. “Personally, I lost a lot of accommodation and tour bookings....
.... — Derek Biden’s energy and environment overhaul begins “It’s time for boldness for there is so much to do,” said President Biden in his inauguration speech....
...You could feel it at the Latino designer Willy Chavarria’s show, who sent out shirtless male models, many of them street-cast, in pleated khaki “cholo” pants as wide and luxurious as ball skirts....
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...“I just don’t think you can take your eye off the ball in terms of the short-term risks of the virus.”...
...Derek Welton and Michael Laurenz, as Orest and Aegisth, fill out their characters vividly....
...“From the beginning the Russians were just not playing ball,” said one person familiar with the weeks-long negotiations. After lobbying Moscow heavily to take on new cuts, it was now decision time....
...The artist Derek Jarman accused such dramas of being “nostalgic, obsessed with the past . . . feeding illusions of stability in an unstable world”....
...She spent 30 minutes discussing all the different options with the Russ & Daughters staffer on the other end of a phone: noodles or matzo balls, kreplach or everything together?...
...Additional reporting by Derek Brower and Anjli Raval in London, Henry Foy in Moscow...
...There’s a vivid moment in Bafta-winning debbie tucker green’s latest play ear for eye that succinctly dramatises what Derek Bardowell means by “minimising” in No Win Race....
...When ENB’s former director Derek Deane first proposed ballet in the round back in 1997, people swore blind that it couldn’t be done....
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