Hints and tips:
...I have more than 50 dress hats – from fedoras to cowboy hats to straw boaters. They are the ultimate form of self-expression....
...A straw poll on WeChat produced a number of views....
...Recently depressed coal prices have proved the final straw for many mines whose Soviet-era creation sometimes defied economic sense....
...The timber-framed walls were often infilled with a mixture of straw and animal dung....
...It is named after the little Wisconsin town where locals blame the closure of a paper mill by Wausau Paper on pressure from activist fund Starboard Value....
...Once statistics show divorced people living shorter lives than married ones, say, isn’t banning divorce as defensible as banning trans fats?...
...Last week the weather cleared, the mills cranked up and the “crush” began....
...Not quite “come back, all is forgiven”, but for HSBC, Standard Chartered and Barclays – which are muttering about relocating from London – a potentially significant straw in the wind....
...An unremarkable metal hangar from outside, the mill’s warm, humidified interior clatters with serried rows of machines performing the seven or eight stages of turning raw cotton lint into thread....
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