Hints and tips:
...The Pentagon’s costly fleet of F-35 fighter jets can only fly a little over half the time, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office....
...“Will you give F-16, F-35 [fighter jets]?...
...In 2001, Nick and Giles English, two brothers, seemingly straying from the pages of a Biggles novel, crash-landed a vintage biplane in a pea field in Champagne....
...Turkey was effectively kicked out of the F-35 fighter jet programme, and that means not only not being able to purchase F-35 jets, as Greece and other countries in the region are buying them, but also being...
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...The administration is undertaking a huge fiscal experiment, writes our economics editor Chris Giles, and the whole world is watching....
...Central bankers are not, as a source of the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles put it, the sort of people who get up in the morning and think “f*** it, I’m going to do something crazy today.”...
...The civil servant, Woman F, described the first minister as repeatedly refilling her glass....
...According to several individuals in the room, he responded, “if you don’t like how I run things, there’s the door”, adding that critics could “f**k off”....
...Giles Thorne of Jefferies is neither impressed nor particularly worried....
...Talking to the Financial Times last year, Mr Oliver himself said that he had “f***ed up” 40 per cent of his business ventures....
...St Giles was a warren of filth and decay. So it makes you think: what is progress?”...
...David F Heathfield Southampton, UK...
...But even such a wily old pro as F Murray Abraham can’t quite turn his character’s rambling Oedipal yearnings into compelling theatre....
...The most notorious came in June when the then foreign secretary Boris Johnson said “f*** business” after being asked about UK companies’ needs after Brexit....
...Additional reporting by Michael Hunter Letter in response to this article: Price stability comes at a cost / From David F Heathfield, Southampton, UK...
...Chris Giles argues that the end to austerity promised by the UK government will be just hot air without some honesty about the need to raise taxes to fund improved public services....
...It emerged at the weekend that the foreign secretary had recently responded to a question about companies’ concerns over Brexit with the words: “F*** business.”...
...Chris Giles reflects on the maligned “Brexit dividend” and argues that such poor policy sentiments result from a misguided understanding of the economy....
...But the IMF managing director argued that rather than sit back and enjoy the outlook, central banks and companies should learn from John F Kennedy, who said: “The time to repair the roof is when the sun...
...They would use the new UK systems to report on their use of ODS and F-gases....
...(e) the theory of financial markets and money; (f) aggregation — excessive aggregation hides much that is of first order macroeconomic significance; (g) shocks — the sources of perturbation to the economy...
...Giles Coren, reviewing Oliver’s Oxford restaurant in The Times, wrote: “This place is streets ahead of any Italian chain I can think of anywhere in the world.”...
...In a paper for the John F Kennedy School of government at Harvard university, Mr Balls, the former UK minister and unexpected star of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing show, says the old assumption no longer...
...The FT’s Chris Giles reports. The rather worrying exception: Italy....
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