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.... ★★☆☆☆ Mushiness is happily absent from Macy Gray and the California Jet Club’s Christmas with You....
...And obviously the other spectre stalking Tory thoughts is Nigel Farage, the idea that he makes a return to the fray in the run-up to the general election itself....
...Billionaires in the fray Russian-Israeli mogul and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich has distanced himself from daily oversight of the Premier League football club....
...While even Johnson may have little idea of what Johnsonism is, or why it appeals to these places, the political philosopher John Gray concluded that his gut instincts have landed on an ideological stance...
...Shareholders now expect a bidding war for the retailer, and Apollo Global Management, the private equity giant, has indicated it may enter the fray....
...Photo London, which for five years has been held in Somerset House in May, will now hold its postponed sixth edition in Gray’s Inn Gardens, Holborn, between October 7 and 11....
...Germany’s Allianz has also entered the fray. Earlier this month it invested $59m in American Well, a US healthcare technology start-up. In China, the insurers’ fears are playing out....
...Bankers say they expect Zurich’s rivals Allianz, Axa and AIG to be weighing up whether to enter the fray, although none has yet declared its hand....
...As relations between Russia and the west continue to fray, data and anecdotal evidence suggest more people are leaving the country than before....
...It is exactly because the feral Richard sneers “this word love, which gray-beards call divine” that the man who confides “I am myself alone” is so irresistibly sexy....
...He returns to the fray, arguing that, to keep developing, India needs a state that is simultaneously smaller and stronger....
...Shares in AssetCo rose 29 per cent on Monday after it emerged that another potential bidder had entered the fray to snap up the embattled Aim-quoted company, which supplies engines to the London Fire Brigade...
...Analysts downplayed the prospect of another bidder entering the fray for Northumbrian. Shares closed up 20.9p at 447.2p, giving the company an enterprise value, including net debt, of £4.62bn....
...Analysts said there were no immediate signs of another bidder entering the fray....
...Some analysts speculated that trade buyers could now enter the fray for Shanks, although Monday’s share price rally does not suggest another bidder is waiting in the wings....
...Lori Calvasina, analyst at Citi, said retail investors had “joined the fray following the release of quarterly 401k statements”....
...One research firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, claims that fantasy sports cost US companies as much as $435m a week in lost productivity....
...But who now could write Gray’s ’Elegy’ or ’Kubla Khan’?”...
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