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...Before we leave, Douglas wants to show me a video on his phone of a U2 concert at the Sphere in Las Vegas, a new immersive venue that gives the audience the impression of being somewhere else....
...“We’ve found that people are increasingly coming to the skilled trades after they go to college,” says the union’s general president Douglas J McCarron....
...A large proportion of reported heat-related deaths in Phoenix and Las Vegas took place among the cities’ homeless population....
...Tovey and Douglas are both superb: Douglas is lithe, mercurial and charismatic, impishly sexy in his chat-up scene, devastating in his fear and distress; Tovey is the actor to portray Roland most emphatically...
...No, you can’t go to Las Vegas and get wasted at the Mandalay for two nights, no you can’t upgrade to business class, because business class is gone, and no, you can’t buy more than one 12-pack of toilet...
...According to the Brookings Institution, Miami’s tech sector is growing faster than that of Boston, San Diego and Las Vegas....
...Mr Trump’s action focused on devices used in a shooting that left 58 people dead in Las Vegas last year....
...It’s the latest sign that the administration is willing to engage in a limited form on gun regulation after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, which left 17 people dead....
...Recent horrors (most notably Sandy Hook, Las Vegas and now Parkland), have not materially changed the government position on gun control....
...In the wake of the October 2017 massacre in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead, Mr Trump and other Republicans said they were open to banning bump stocks, devices that help convert a semi-automatic rifle...
...AOB and Sturm Ruger had five-day gains after 58 people were killed at a Las Vegas concert last October, and in June 2016 when 49 people were murdered at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida....
...In Washington, survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gave speeches warning that lawmakers who did not pass new gun control laws would be voted out of office....
...“We’re definitely seeing it in Las Vegas. This apartment market is extremely hot.”...
...Point72 president Douglas Haynes said the office was launching with seven analysts and portfolio managers, but could grow to as large as 70 to 80 people....
...The woman at the ticket window was polishing her nails like a Las Vegas divorcée, and, in my heart, I knew something was wrong here....
...Douglas Anmuth, an analyst at JPMorgan, said Facebook, Netflix and Alphabet, remained their “favourite names” among large-caps this year....
...I like Las Vegas but I don’t get the gambling part of it....
...In Nevada, where Mr Obama will arrive in Las Vegas on Friday to rally support, many unauthorised immigrants work in roofing and gardening and make up 10.2 per cent of the labour force, the highest proportion...
...Remember, not even Mr Burns would eat the three-eyed fish from downriver. ——————————————- Douglas Coupland’s most recent novel is ‘Worst. Person....
...Sir, I am sure I am not alone in spotting the logical contradiction in Douglas Coupland’s article “Radiation is for ever” (Life & Arts, April 26)....
...Douglas is in Vegas to wed a 30-years-younger fiancée, if he can make it to the altar....
...Hackers’ contest Defcon 22, a hackers’ convention, takes place at the Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, and expects 10,000 computer specialists....
...In Steven Soderbergh’s sensitive and sparkling retelling of Thorson’s memoir, Douglas astonishes as the flamboyant showman – strutting his stuff on the Vegas stage, yet beneath all the flounces and furs...
...Douglas Coupland is the author of ‘Generation X’. His new novel ‘Worst. Person. Ever.’ is published by Heinemann this autumn...
...Douglas, dapper, glowing, regal, directs the lives around him. It’s all huge fun....
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