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...When their idol took the stage, the screams that greeted her would do justice to the word hysteria, yet what followed was not an evening of Taylor Swift pop or Ariana Grande R&B, but a set of bossa novas...
...But she is most excited about the acts whom many of the audience will be encountering for the first time: she singles out B....
...Whenever user A is friends with user B, user B is also friends with user A....
...Mr López Obrador has scrapped that approach, ridiculing what he says were previous promises that Mexico would by now be producing more than 3m b/d....
...Even as the talks resume, Mexico is pushing ahead with a possible Plan B to diversify its economic dependence on US trade....
...RF oxfordlieder.co.uk, 01865 305305 … Bebel Gilberto, October 6, Barbican Hall, London Bebel Gilberto broke out from under the shadow of her father João by championing her own brand of cool, bossa-laden...
...He argued in 2009 that world oil production was unlikely ever to exceed 89m barrels a day – a prediction that has been confounded by the US shale boom, with world production heading for 93m b/d, but which...
...The Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent shut down both reactors after power to the site was cut off by storm-related debris landing on power lines....
...Carola Hoyos, recruitment editor of the FT Executive Appointments section Ms Hoyos writes and commissions features about job moves and career management topics....
...Fitch placed Finmeccanica’s long-term rating of triple B minus on negative watch....
...“They will be under enormous pressure to explain what Plan B is and they’ll be punished if they don’t,” says Guy Anderson of IHS Jane’s, the defence industry analysts....
...Like BP, BAE’s US arm has expended much energy trying to eradicate any memory that the “B” in its name once stood for “British”....
...He criticised the previous Labour government for having chosen the Stovl B version....
...“They were chasing the quick results, rather than the long term,” says Francis Tusa of Defence Analysis, adding: “There was no plan B.”...
...In doing so, he abandoned Labour’s plans to buy the F35-B – a rival model that has vertical take off and landing capability....
...At the time he roundly criticised the previous Labour government for choosing the Stovl B variant....
...The situation is particularly difficult for David Cameron, prime minister, because he categorically supported switching away from Labour’s plan to buy the F-35 B....
...Mr Cameron first changed the UK’s order 18 months ago in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, switching to the C variant from Labour’s original decision to go with the B variant....
...The defence ministry will decide as early as the end of this month whether to switch back to the F35-B, which needs only a short runway to take off and can land vertically, 18 months after ditching the model...
...However, some US politicians and think-tanks are now raising the option of cancelling two variants of the F-35 programme – the “B” short-take off and landing version and the “C” carrier variant – keeping...
...● Jets The change in the type of aircraft the carriers can take will be keenly felt by Rolls-Royce, which produces the lift systems that allow the Strike Fighter B to take off from a short runway and...
...Opec now produces 29.2m barrels a day, well above the 28.8m b/d the IEA says it will need to provide – on average – this year, and even above the 29.1m b/d it will need to pump in 2011....
...The company produces more than half of its 1.8m b/d of oil from Africa and has doubled production since 1998....
...BP pumped 320,000 barrels a day from the North Sea last year and aims to maintain production at about 300,000 b/d....
...World oil consumption fell by 1.2m b/d, the largest decline since 1982, while global energy consumption as a whole fell 1.3 per cent, as declines in developed countries outpaced growth in developing nations...
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