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...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...The earl simply popped into his head while, yes, walking alone. “I thought, ‘Ah, now he’s good.’ So I kept him talking.”...
...lenders’ ownership (FT) Carnival taps bond market for another $1.3bn to stay afloat (FT) CVC seeks coronavirus clauses to complete £300m Six Nations rugby deal (FT) Benetton-backed Atlantia to sell toll...
...But the rest cure had failed and Broadbent, an eminent physician, had judged the earl was “not in a fit state of health to undertake any responsible work”....
...That night, 550 bombers dropped about 700 tonnes of bombs on the city, killing some 1,500 civilians and taking the death toll to about 43,000 since the Blitz began eight months earlier....
...Boeing slumped to its biggest ever quarterly loss as the prolonged grounding of its bestselling 737 Max jet took its toll....
...Sidney, nephew of the powerful Earl of Leicester and a celebrated young poet, died after the battle of Zutphen, fighting a proxy war to repel Catholic Spain from northern Europe....
...Among those he furnished with paintings by Canaletto were the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Carlisle and Sir Robert Hervey....
...In this mundane world Susan Bullock plays a convincingly down-to-earth Minnie, but singing Brünnhilde and Elektra has taken its toll on her voice....
...Foolish investments, punitive taxes and extravagant lifestyles all took their toll on his family’s fortunes....
...“A potential sale of a piece of Earls Court is also in the cards, which could result in a special dividend,” it said....
...Today, the death toll in Iraq remains relentless....
...Toll roads and rail links, in theory, pay out the kind of steady inflation-linked cash flows that pension funds crave. But they are too small on their own to sort through the pick ‘n’ mix of projects....
...The bridge was built by the Earl of Abingdon in 1767 and is governed by its own act of parliament, granting tax exemption to the earl and “his heirs and assignees forever”....
...The manor, which was designed for the first Earl of Milltown in the mid-18th century, is situated in a large park that overlooks Blessington Lakes....
...After a fortifying breakfast of bacon, fibre supplement and Earl Grey tea, we hoofed it to Waterloo Station for the train to Sandown Park....
...The architecture-loving 3rd Earl of Burlington dominates the painting, accompanied by papers inscribed with the revered names of Vitruvius, Palladio and Serlio....
...Crawling inside the skin of a Shylock or Lear or Macbeth takes its toll....
...However, it was Harley Earl, chief designer of GM, who put the jet-powered car on the map. His three Firebird concept cars in the 1950s married “rocketship looks” to some radical ideas, says Casey....
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