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...“This shift in consumers’ preference from big-ticket items to services will continue in 2023, as will headwinds from inflation and interest rate hikes,” Franco said....
...Consumers’ intentions to buy homes, automobiles, and large appliances all cooled in November, while they indicated their “short-term outlook remained gloomy,” Franco continued....
...“Consumer confidence retreated in October, after advancing in August and September” said Lynn Franco, Conference Board senior director of economic indicators....
...further in September — prompted largely by declining prices at the gas pump — and are now at their lowest level since the start of the year,” Conference Board senior director of economic indicators Lynn Franco...
...“Concerns about the Delta variant - and, to a lesser degree, rising gas and food prices - resulted in less favourable view of current economic conditions and short-term growth prospects,” said Lynn Franco...
...“They both frighten me,” said Isabela Franco, a 21-year-old medical student, as she queued to vote on Sunday for Sergio Fajardo, one of the moderates who failed to make the run-off....
...When British volunteers returned home after Franco’s victory they were met by a crowd that included Clement Attlee....
...The first thing you see as you enter is a poster of Hugo Chávez, the late anti-capitalist leader of Venezuela, and a table stacked with political leaflets....
...The timezone is the legacy of the deep cunning of Francisco Franco....
...José María Aznar against Chávez’s taunts of “fascism” – the king turned to Chávez and said “¿Por qué no te callas?”...
...A stable two-party political system has been among Spain’s greatest strengths in the post-Franco era....
...“It reminds me of an old joke about [Spain’s Francisco] Franco,” says one Argentine observer....
...“Increasingly, the opposition is using Brazil as the counterfactual; indeed, Mr Capriles often pointedly says how much he admires Brazil,” says Mr Franco....
...human rights and democracy, Mr Franco says....
...“Resource nationalism tends to ebb and flow, a lot has been linked to oil prices,” says RoseAnne Franco, upstream analyst at consultancy Wood Mackenzie....
...Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister, has sought to distance himself from the Libyan government, telling parliament that although “Italy did what it did” with regard to the reparations agreement brokered...
...The biggest opponent for Colombia’s left at present was Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s leftist president, Mr Pardo said. “Mr Chavez is the most unpopular man in Colombia.”...
...“Given the technical requirements and capital commitments, these projects have a demanding path ahead,” says RoseAnne Franco, an analyst at PFC Energy....
...The latest Ipsos-Napoleon Franco poll suggests Mr Santos’s prudence has paid off....
...RoseAnne Franco, lead Latin America analyst at PFC Energy, points out that some state oil companies, such as China’s CNPC, do have experience in the development of heavy oil....
...Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, always a fount of objective wisdom, was quick to join the chorus against the Yankee imperialists. So were sections of the European media....
...But despite recent advances, such as last year’s rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the Franco-Colombian politician, and 13 Farc hostages, with the killing of Raul Reyes, the former Farc leader, in a controversial...
...Output has dropped from 3.4m barrels a day just before Mr Chavez came to power in 1999 to 2.4m today. Mexico is arguably in an even worse position....
...General Franco 29. Crazy Horse, hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn 30. Salvador Allende, president of Chile, 1970-73 31. Harvey Milk, gay rights activist 32. Harold Wilson 33....
...“The pact was that the Franco regime would not be put on trial,’’ says Manuel Chavez, president of the regional government of Andalusia....
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