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...The sharp rise in freight rates and port snarl-ups in 2021-22, which have now dissipated, were more to do with a surge of consumer demand as the world recovered from the initial shock of Covid, not supply...
...Zena Hanks, a partner at Saffery Champness, described the numbers as “stark”....
...A sharp eye for talent too, and a lucky touch with the zeitgeist....
...Not all entries are so sharp: Julian Schnabel might be baffled to learn that “he makes good art” because “he is a human being”....
...It always was,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime New York political strategist....
...Among Disney’s programmes earmarked for 2022 are a retelling of Pinocchio starring Tom Hanks, a new instalment of the Cars franchise and Obi-Wan Kenobi starring Ewan McGregor....
...But other policies he laid out in a new Blueprint to End Gun Violence are drawing sharp criticism from progressives, who call them excessive and misguided....
...The first theme, Mobley’s “Hipsippy Blues”, establishes the catchy themes, sharp arrangements and hip phrasing of the Messengers’ style....
...This desire is especially sharp in a world of increasingly weaponised finance. Consider recent moves by both Beijing and Washington to curb private sector involvement in each other’s capital markets....
...Add to this the sharp decrease in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and there’s real cause for concern about the future of the cultural sector in the US....
...So they pocket the tax cuts and fret inconsequentially about the economic iron curtain descending on US-China relations, as Hank Paulson put it. This is only going to get worse....
...In November, the New York Times reported a sharp drop in criminal and civil penalties in the first 20 months of Mr Trump’s presidency compared with the last 20 months of the Obama administration....
...“He’s less sharp than he was,” this person said. Like Mr Trump, Mr Giuliani was a young man who stormed Manhattan from the outer boroughs....
...Are KPMG auditors no different to Forrest Gump, in Tom Hanks’ episodic movie? Or more akin to the Devil, in Mick Jagger’s sympathetic song?...
...Who can forget the fate of poor Pablo, lost in the Arizona desert in 1906, his flesh “black and dry as a hank of jerky . . . his eyes set in a winkless stare”?...
...Hank Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs chief executive in charge of the US Treasury, had found that agreeing on a price was impossible....
...“Lloyd successfully led Goldman Sachs through a once-in-75-year financial storm and its bitter aftermath, and has repositioned the firm for today’s world,” says Hank Paulson, who preceded Mr Blankfein as...
...The Hank Greenberg protégé instead offers other explanations for why the deal is a “great strategic fit” for AIG....
...Several people familiar with the situation say Mr Liu had asked Hank Paulson, the former Treasury secretary, and other US financiers to convince him to play a bigger role....
...“The trip to China marks a major change in his operating mode and it signals that he does feel that his control . . . is secure enough for him to be away from his headquarters for a few days,” says Hank...
...My hopeful belief is that, despite her physical frailty — she suffered a stroke in 2007 — Lee’s mind is sharp. And the publication of Watchman has her assent and an intention behind it....
...The collapse of the latest talks prompted a sharp sell-off across debt markets of southern eurozone countries and Greece's stock market fell sharply....
...Hank Paulson, a former Goldman chief executive, had been a cheerleader for Webvan and that haunted us for years....
...They performed covers of songs by Hank Williams, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline, John Lee Hooker, Fats Domino and Pete Seeger....
...Two years later, Hank McKinnell, Mr Steere’s replacement, launched a $60bn takeover of Pharmacia, securing drugs including Celebrex, then part of a promising class of new painkillers....
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