Hints and tips:
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...There is growing optimism that a “V-shaped” rebound — which had been widely dismissed only a month ago — could be on the horizon....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Capital & Counties, same. Here’s Peel Hunt: Unsurprisingly, the majority of units around Covent Garden are now closed....
...(FT) Cushman v the cleaner Last year, Sonia Mercado took an $18-an-hour cleaning job with Cushman & Wakefield in New Hampshire....
...Jacob Nell, chief UK economist, head of European economics, at Morgan Stanley: No....
...Last year, Morgan Stanley sold a 100mW gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Alabama and an 80-mW oil-fired plant in Bainbridge, Georgia to Walton Electric Membership Corp, a rural co-operative in Monroe,...
...When solicitor general Donald Verrilli came before the US Supreme Court to argue the Obama administration’s side in Shelby County v Holder in February, Chief Justice John Roberts peppered him with trivia...
...The court is also considering a challenge by an Alabama county to the Voting Rights Act, designed to stop states with a history of racism from discriminating against voters....
...(Wall Street Journal) JPMorgan’s Alabama debacle set to cost bank $1.5bn: “The biggest U.S. bank by assets agreed to forgive $842 million of debt owed to it by Jefferson County, Alabama, where it took the...
...There’s money laundering for terrorists and arms dealers, bribery, tax evasion, Enron, creating (or at least keeping inflated) the internet bubble, duping local governments such as Jefferson County in Alabama...
...JP Morgan and the individuals sought to have the case dismissed. A spokesman for JP Morgan declined to comment....
...The Alabama county was very nearly bankrupted by an interest rate swap deal gone awry....
..., Alabama....
...The insurer also has significant exposure — about $1.2bn — to Jefferson County in Alabama....
...Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS and Wachovia had an uncomfortable time in Texas on Thursday....
...But then, Saturday’s Wales v New Zealand match at Cardiff is all about history....
...One leading religious conservative questions Mr Bush’s views on Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to abortion....
...Officers of the Tulsa police and county sheriff’s department sided with the whites, hastily deputising hundreds and handing out weapons....
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