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...Since its introduction in 1996, Mercedes-Benz has dominated the luxury mover market with the much-loved and versatile V-class....
...Within that, the biggest haul in the first half of 2023 was secured by Beijing’s IDG Capital, which raised $709mn to invest in clean tech....
...Past and present co-exist here as Elliot Cowan, representing all Jude’s abusers, regularly invades the space and hauls him back to those horrors....
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...The cash haul has allowed Oxy to pay down almost half of the debt it took on to win Anadarko....
...While he dreams of the “stag do in Gstaad” look proffered by Moncler, it’s more likely he’s in Black Friday Uniqlo....
...While outages have been averted, concern about the future of the grid remains....
...There is no prospect of batteries replacing jet fuel for long-haul flights. But UK entrepreneur Alex Asseily, a Lilium investor and its former strategy director, has high hopes for short-haul....
...Tom Herbert and Dave Smith were skin-tight on bass guitar and drums, while Elliot Galvin delivered a psychedelic sheen of ripples and beeps from his collection of keyboards and synths....
...While social media currently attracts more ad dollars, with a forecast annual haul of $65bn, retail media is set to grow more than five times faster in 2022....
...According to a survey of fund managers from Bank of America this month, just 10 per cent expected a V-shaped recovery, while 75 per cent anticipated a U- or W-shaped one....
...While pricier than her typical range, “it’s certainly cheaper than exotic skins”, she said....
...While a consultation is currently ongoing, Williamson has indicated that formal exams may include mitigating measures, such as reducing content or allowing pupils to take additional resources into tests....
...I spent a week with the LiveWire back then and, while its top speed was just 110mph, the way it got there was certainly superbike-thrilling....
...And the first couple of times I haul it back to shift from third to fourth, I catch Elliot East nervously glancing at the beautifully sculpted turret that surrounds it....
...The Flying-V is a future long-haul plane, carrying up to 360 passengers. The model’s maiden flight, while largely successful, was not perfect....
...In the village of Thulasendrapuram, a seven-hour drive from Chennai on the Bay of Bengal and the boyhood home of Ms Harris’ diplomat grandfather P V Gopalan, V Shivakumar is preparing for his second political...
...As the first anniversary approaches of the report of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan, it is ever clearer that we are in for a long haul....
...Commodities certainly like the look of this, but the jury remains out on whether there will be a V-shaped recovery....
...He grabs a rung, and hauls himself to safety. Heaving himself half out of the water, he throws his head back and crows like Peter Pan, a wild ululation....
...You might have to wait till 2040, but the Flying-V aircraft might just be the future of long-haul travel. When sages speak How do you move money from a digital wallet in, say, Kenya to one in China?...
...In “Road and Rock” Hopper depicts, as if glimpsed while travelling past, a huge boulder on the corner of a highway....
...For the V&A’s senior curator of design and digital, Corinna Gardner, these items “reveal truths about how we live today”, while the gallery, which will reopen in June, “invites visitors to think critically...
...Time: the late 1980s and the long haul of the austerity Thatcher years....
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
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