Hints and tips:
...In practice that’s going to keep the pressure on the government to look at tax rises, whether that’s next year or in subsequent ones....
...A robot-filled state-of-the-art factory was constructed in about 21 months — a turnround so swift that, when I opened Google Maps to check our location, the app thought I was standing offshore in the Gulf...
...Bias is built into our practices and procedures, not just into our minds. Here is our opportunity....
...Kyaukphyu links the Middle Kingdom to seaways towards south Asia, Africa, the Gulf and beyond....
...Peter Grauer, Mr Bloomberg’s successor as chairman of Bloomberg L.P, earlier this month embarrassed the Labour party by signing a letter in support of the Conservatives only a day after Ed Miliband launched...
...Richard Griffin, the department’s acting inspector general, admitted on Thursday that its review could lead to criminal charges....
...The lawyers soon found themselves facing tough questions in court, although Judge Thomas P. Griesa ruled that the memo remains privileged....
...The Geneva talks will not be able to take place with the coalition in such disarray, said Salman Shaikh of the Brookings Doha Center....
...She e-mailed him at 5:37 p.m. with a draft of what the Fed would tell the world the next morning at 8 a.m....
...State department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign earlier this year after he described the treatment as “ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid”....
...It will also invest in “littoral combat” vessels, high-speed ships made for operating close to shore, some of which may be based in Singapore....
...And tonight, I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky...
...The Peacock Cloak , by Chris Beckett, NewCon Press RRP£10.99, 240 pages A stunning short story collection from the winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award (for last year’s Dark Eden )....
...The SEC said the agency was reviewing the report, agreed with several of its recommendations and had taken other steps to shore up leasing practices....
...For every Fifth Avenue, there’s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there’s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors....
...Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”...
...In short, counterinsurgency does not require improved governance, not to say democratic practices, from the capital, a fundamental transformation that is highly unlikely in Afghanistan....
...Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Protecting Our Security and Our Values National Archives Museum Washington, D.C....
...says Patrick Viguerie, head of McKinsey’s corporate practice in the Americas....
...Since the piece was written, P&O have offered £5,000 to two of the families....
...The Center for Political Accountability, a non-partisan group, recently surveyed the S&P 100 companies to see how they regulated their political activity....
...In domestic terms, Mr Brown must balance the need to defuse growing public discontent over Iraq with the need to shore up support for a “long war” in Afghanistan....
...“The US should let societies like Iran practice democracy themselves. This may take longer but it will last longer.”...
...However, both the then chairman of the ethics committee and the then general counsel challenged this version of events....
...“But in practice Mr Bush has responded to what the commanders are requesting on the ground, which is more troops and, to a lesser extent, more equipment.”...
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