Hints and tips:
...China’s pharma researchers do a lot of R&D of their own, but do not seem to produce many blockbusters....
...That is why this hiving off of R&D as something that clever people do is so problematic.”...
...He is the founder of clothing brand Thames MMXX, and has collaborated with Adidas on a line of vegan “Blondey” trainers. Lila wears Chanel silk-satin and tulle top, £3,340....
...I’ve also been listening to old R&B and some obscure 1970s rock music – I like people going off on a huge riff for 10 minutes with a triangle, then coming back. It’s an odyssey....
...Commendably, ministers have pledged to increase total R&D spending to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027....
...Solvers can expect to see shortened forms of political parties and groupings crop up regularly — L and LIB for Liberal, LAB for Labour, R and REP for Republican (and sometimes GOP), D and DEM for Democrat...
...I also meet Gregg Wilson, part of the Eon production team and grandson of co-founder Albert R “Cubby” Broccoli, and take the opportunity to ask him how they decide the theme of the next Bond movie....
...Not a bad price for the quality.£39.95 Lea & Sandeman Harrow & Hope Blanc de Blancs 2017 EnglandLate disgorged 100% Thames Valley Chardonnay that suggests this cuvée from Henry and Kaye Laithwaite really...
...ABC Television’s anthology series Mystery and Imagination adapted three of James’s stories, concluding in 1968 with another version of Casting the Runes, this one directed by Alan Cook and produced by Thames...
...In the end, they caught him “chrome-handed” on the side of a bridge, with the Thames rolling underneath....
...The commissioner in charge of the green deal, Frans Timmermans, puts it succinctly by comparing “a price on carbon [to] a premium on decarbonisation”....
...He moved to London, though, just as many jazz gigs were switching to R&B. “The Marquee Club, then in Oxford Street, [used to have] jazz seven nights a week.”...
...Here’s our guide to the best venues for a tipple by the Thames....
...Indian energy minister R K Singh told a virtual gathering of the world’s climate leaders that targets set for 2050 or 2060 were just “a pie in the sky”....
...In the Netherlands, Peter R de Vries, the crime journalist who was shot in the head on a street in Amsterdam last week, passed away in hospital yesterday....
...Ministers also want to offer potential tax breaks such as lower employer National Insurance contributions, R&D tax credits, lower stamp duty and a light-touch planning system....
...Keith Corkan Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, UK...
...Beyond a few paragraphs about technology and R&D, it said little about business....
...The febrile backdrop is hardly ideal for Ms Jourova, who wants to start afresh with Poland after relations with Warsaw hit a nadir under her predecessor Frans Timmermans....
...“They actually asked me, are you investing enough in R&D? Should you not do more? The conversation has completely changed.”...
...The Brexiteers’ goal of making the UK “Singapore-on-Thames” is a delusion based on a profound misunderstanding of Singapore. Andrew J Oswald: Young economists have not lived through times like these....
...(The challenge was thus called because we both reside in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames.)...
...Prof David R Cameron Dept of Political Science,Yale University, US...
...There’s the odd touch of humour too – an outdoor rowing machine is positioned on the terrace overlooking the Thames....
...I much prefer the annual Southwold-on-Thames assessment of bordeaux vintages when they are three-and-a-bit years old and have settled down in bottle....
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