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...I almost always discover exciting local artists and makers here, such as pottery from Very Less, whose berry bowl is now on my wishlist....
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...The other branchless banks that have reached significant scale also have strength in asset-gathering: they are the card companies like Discover, American Express and Synchronicity Financial....
...We will discover the quality of pre-crisis underwriting in the months to come. The banks may be as surprised as the public, if the last crisis is any guide....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...The Prix Pictet exhibition “Hope” is at the V&A Museum, London, November 14-December 8; vam.ac.uk....
...Rather than electronic aids, she uses hardware store products — like hooks — to hold a pen, manipulate cutlery, play cards and put on make-up....
...Ever since the landmark case of White v White in 2000, London has earned a reputation as the divorce capital of the world....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...In the end he’s 20 minutes late, dressed casually in black jeans and black V-neck, buttoned-up T-shirt carrying a pair of unbranded dark glasses....
...(I later discover they get a mere $6,000 for being beaten up; double that if it is they who has done the beating.) “We don’t let the media know a lot of the numbers....
...The Kennedy administration were surprised to discover that no one legally “owned” the White House....
...The manipulative Henry V was no longer quite the hero that Laurence Olivier had portrayed in his patriotic 1944 film....
...“Proponents of a V-shaped [economic] recovery are underestimating how much rising unemployment and an unstable structure of indebtedness can lengthen and deepen this recession,” says Sandy Chen, banks analyst...
...And when this storm is over, we should not be surprised to discover that the greatest global believers in capitalism will be in Asia....
...The players then have to present their cards as if they’re in an exhibition of that title, arguing their case as to why each card should be included....
...They will begin trading under the ticker “V” on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday....
...When we meet, she admits she thinks before giving out her business card in case of stalkers....
...How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards?...
...Mr Eriksen will not talk about where the retailer might plant its flag next and says expansion into other national markets is not on the cards right now....
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