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...“We don’t expect him to support us, just not to hammer us down,” said Joron. Additional reporting by Ian Johnston...
...For more than a year, the chief executive of Church & Dwight had seen sales of premium brands such as Arm & Hammer Platinum Clump & Seal outpace its lower-priced offerings....
...Events surrounding Taiwan have only seemed to hammer that point home, with China running exercises that Taipei said simulated an attack....
...A meeting to hammer out a new accord was rescheduled from Monday to later this week amid Saudi-Russian recriminations. The two countries have said others must join in any new production cuts....
...Bus and rail operator FirstGroup has tapped a UK emergency lending scheme for £300m and expects the US government to support its Greyhound service as the coronavirus pandemic hammers transport providers....
...And you've seen the Democrats really hammer on that. That helped them in the midterms of 2018. They focused very much on healthcare costs and how that's impacting middle-class voters....
...Brace yourselves: Don Johnson hair is on its way, and will be followed by saddle shoes and MC Hammer-style harem trousers. And there is nothing any of us can do to stop it....
...There, patients are healed and penitents absolved, labourers labour with hammer and saw, a scholar jabs his compass at a globe....
...Carriers may use the threat of an automated future as a “hammer” to suppress driver wages, warns Sam Loesche, legislative representative at the Teamsters union....
...Our baseline view is that the government will avoid “no deal” and will begin to hammer out a trade framework during the spring....
...“Gensler was a hammer to the banks as he wanted to further his political career; Massad was unobtrusive. But Giancarlo has personal respect....
...Twitter: @Oilsheppard Additional reporting by Anjli Raval in London and Gregory Meyer in New York...
...He also wants to dispatch activist investor Carl Icahn to hammer out new trade deals with China and other competitors. Healthcare Mr Trump sees a role for public funding in healthcare....
...Liam O’Keeffe Abinger Hammer, Surrey, UK...
...“He’s got a diplomatic style when he needs it, and he can bring down the hammer,” says Robert Holifield, a former Senate and CFTC official now with Lincoln Policy Group, a lobbying firm....
...Companies have paired investment cuts with aggressive moves to hammer down costs. Service companies, for both oil sands and conventional producers, have been forced to renegotiate rates....
...“The thing they always were able to say is, ‘it doesn’t cost money’,” says Tom Hammer, who led the SUA in the 1990s....
...James Knight, group motoring director at Bonhams auction house, said nine out of 10 classic cars coming under the hammer last year found new homes....
...David Edgar’s Written on the Heart opens in a droll mood, with a bunch of querulous clerics grumbling about their muddy cloaks, a scene that bustles with life in Gregory Doran’s Royal Shakespeare Company...
...Sand companies typically hammer out long-term supply deals with oilfield services companies, keeping market prices hidden from outsiders....
...Optiver, the regulator alleged, reaped $1m in illicit profits by using a software program called the “Hammer” to send out rapid-fire electronic orders and “bully the market” by influencing official day-end...
Tough times could trigger corporate art sell-off
...“While Hong Kong people are still the biggest fine wine buyers in the world, we are seeing a sharp rise in interest from mainland China,” said Gregory De ’eb, general manager of Crown....
...The wine sales marked a strong start for Sotheby’s autumn auction, which will see more than 2,400 lots go under the hammer. Sotheby’s is expecting that the artwork and antiques sales will reach $140m....
...Callimanopulos claims the firm’s star auctioneer, Christopher Burge, sold him the picture, then reopened bidding after spotting a bidder in the room as the hammer went down....
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