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...But whatever the imperfections of teacher-assessed grades, back across the city at Varndean College, where Martin Ballard, the head of history was celebrating his department’s 64 per cent A*-B grades, the...
...Teenager Nell Ballard has left her foster home for opportunities in London. But her rigidly organised new employer is concealing dangerous secrets — and so is Nell....
...It is a long way off the roughly 4 per cent yield on a widely watched high-yield bond index, or even the 7.2 per cent yield on an index of lowly rated, triple C bonds....
...This powered Ballard’s share price to a record high of C$165.05 in September 2000, before plunging below C$15 two years later after consumer demand failed to materialise....
...Says Ballard: “She’s from the Nancy Pelosi school of disagreement, where you still have a smile on your face and you end up getting your way.”...
...K&C Murderers. On a recent afternoon a steady stream of people filed past. Some stopped and stared....
...JG Ballard, who predicted so much of the unsettling techno-utopia of the contemporary world, chose as his favourite building the Hilton at Heathrow’s Terminal Four, designed by Michael Manser in 1990....
...The SEC has never brought an enforcement action against a public company for failing to make a timely disclosure of a cyber-security incident, according to Kim Phan, a data security specialist at Ballard...
...JG Ballard with the weird technological banality of the modern world....
...And while this is an archetypal DeLillo novel, in subject matter and theme, it has obvious influences and antecedents, from Samuel Beckett to JG Ballard and Andrei Tarkovsky to Arthur C Clarke....
...YouTube, Instagram, “selfies”: Ballard saw it coming....
...climate change”, and the example of the novel extrapolating the effects of global warming was already established in science fiction by the time of George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, which won the Arthur C....
...There were uncompromising architectural shapes in (International Klein) Blue and spacey pinks and greys at Balenciaga, where Nicolas Ghesquière conjured up a JG Ballard-like narrative of dystopian 1970s...
...There’s a glossy, JG Ballard desolation to it that’s immensely memorable and strangely attractive....
...And thus on Monday, when I leave the hotel hoping to explore the old Shanghai of JG Ballard and Noël Coward, all I manage to find is Xintiandi, a restored area of the French concession, with a Starbucks,...
...Writers such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke have influenced the way scientists think about space exploration and robotics, while borderline SF writers such as the late JG Ballard have crossed over into...
...She was educated at the Universities of Virginia and Harvard, and resides in Washington, D.C....
...Mr Ballard estimates that annual flows of such remittances total $100bn. “This is all about the globalisation of the world economy,” he says....
...Ballard’s books, and for Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange - a cover he wasn’t originally intending to design himself....
...Ballard shares were trading at C$5.20 yesterday. Plug Power, another former fuel cell stock of the tech-boom era, also saw its share price plunge....
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