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...Arms manufacturers live with a fundamental dilemma: in peacetime, when they need a steady stream of contracts, politicians have little incentive to spend on weapons....
...Iconic singers from past recordings include the intense Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the silver-toned Gundula Janowitz and the richly warm Jessye Norman....
...The notion of a $100 charge to buy an ETF is “well out of line” with investor expectations for how much trading an ETF should cost, said Elisabeth Kashner, director of global fund analytics at FactSet, a...
...Wealth taxes in general, and inheritance taxes in particular, currently collect very little revenue....
...Attal’s appeal also grew when he broke with the usual approach taken by politicians in France, who speak little about their personal lives....
...Asset-weighted expense ratios for equity and bond ETFs were shaved by between 0.003 per cent and 0.002 per cent compared to the previous year, indicating how little room issuers feel they have left for manoeuvre...
...Badinter is survived by his second wife, Élisabeth, an author, and their children, Judith, Simon Marcel and Benjamin....
...By repeatedly using emergency powers to impose legislation, the outgoing government of Élisabeth Borne has dented its legitimacy....
...With an interior partly designed by Elisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti, it competed with Studio 54 for decadence, but in true French style it had a political edge too....
...Static set pieces included an auto-da-fé, usually a spectacular climax, that offered little more than a sad procession of writhing prisoners and torch-wielding extras....
...Little is revealed about Lumon in the first season....
...Comfort food has also been a winner, perhaps because a little of what you fancy has helped ease people through these troubled times....
...Audax still owns a quarter of the company’s equity through $140mn that was rolled into the HIG buyout, a fact it says proves it had little incentive to cheat HIG....
...By September, concerns about getting dragged into the stand-off between Beijing and Brussels were already high enough that France’s wine and spirits industry body wrote to then-prime minister Élisabeth Borne...
...If we fund such detective work by having an occasional whip-round, no wonder there is so much bad research and so little scrutiny. The saying goes that science is self-correcting....
...The FT’s Food and Drink editor Harriet Fitch Little shares her essential ingredients for hosting and having a good time....
...As its leaders gather in southern Spain today, the bonhomie is now starting to look a little frayed around the edges....
...Rubens also painted Helena’s sisters, lavish though informal portraits such as dimpled, smiling Elisabeth Fourment in a daring low-cut lace-edged gown....
...Little did I expect that by 2023, K-pop would have blazed into the mainstream, becoming one of the most popular musical genres in the world....
...In the meantime, though, a little more conversation would not go amiss. sarah.white@ft.com...
...It shows a woman who, despite the power attached to her title, has very little actual control....
...The Liot initiative has little chance of becoming law because it would also need approval by the Senate....
...The centrepiece of this little dream box is Rosalba Carriera’s 18th-century “Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim’s Costume”....
...Some urged him to seal a governing pact with the conservative LR so as to be able to legislate effectively, but he pushed ahead as if little had changed....
...Yet Macron’s method of pushing a sound policy through makes little political sense....
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