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...“It is a huge turnaround from where we were at in the 1970s,” said Harold Hamm, chair of Continental Resources and a shale pioneer....
...Now Harold Fry makes another fine English eccentric....
...Harold Rosenberg summed up Abstract Expressionist gloom as Barnett Newman (the tight zip canvases) closing the door, Rothko pulling down the blinds, Ad Reinhardt (who painted mainly in black) turning off...
...Chart of the day The S&P 500 rose 3.1 per cent in July after closing up 0.2 per cent yesterday at 4,588.96....
...These included Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire, Anglesey Abbey, Wakehurst botanic garden in Sussex and RHS Wisley in Surrey....
...Twitter: @thejamesmax Letter in response to this article: When gardening requires some blue-sky thinking / From Harold Mozley, York, North Yorkshire, UK...
...Their garden owes a debt to French gardening of the past: all those old roses and pleached limes. Did it owe anything to its German prelude?...
...Even so, when David Cameron revived the convention in 2016 and Theresa May followed suit in 2019, the number of close advisers promoted to the peerage rose significantly compared with precedents....
...Seventy years ago this week, in Paris, theatrical history was made when the curtain rose on a tramp in a bowler hat struggling to take off his boot....
...years as Speaker until her retirement in 2000 she arguably did more to reinvigorate the image of the UK parliament than any of her predecessors, resplendent in bespoke silk robes embellished with Tudor roses...
...Claudio’s harsh rejection of his fiancée, with Nadi Kemp-Sayfi’s gentle Hero swaying with shock beneath the wedding arch of roses, draws gasps from the audience....
...I avoid purple-rose, or rose-magenta, frequent colours in border plants. I also remember how the impact varies from season to season: who minds about a clashing profusion of colour in springtime?...
...While he directed content, his brother and co-founder Harold — who became Lord Rothermere — was the business brain and inherited on Alfred’s death. (Harold’s great-grandson is the current owner)....
...Profiting from the invention of rubber-tyred bicycles, and then cars, he rebuilt Chalfield Manor to the 1840s plan with the help of a skilled neo-Gothic architect, Harold Brakspear....
...Harold Hamm, billionaire oil tycoon and erstwhile Donald Trump confidant, stands in a crisp suit at the head of a long dark table in a boardroom high up an Oklahoma City skyscraper....
...Heineken’s revenues rose 37 per cent to €16.4bn in the six months to July, which van den Brink said was “unprecedented”, compared with the lockdown-marred year before....
...Acutely aware that his own title to the throne would be contested, Harold had himself crowned in a hurry at Winchester Abbey after Edward’s death....
...These use a reverse narrative, an approach borrowed from Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, to teach lawyers where problems can arise. ...
...Or Harold Wilson doling out honours to assorted cronies. Or Tony Blair withholding Iraq war advice from his cabinet....
...Brent oil rose above $100 for the first time since 2014. Western nations could step up sanctions on Russia. Welcome back to Energy Source....
...As the Bakken and others were still emerging, between 2011 and 2014, US crude output rose each year on average by about 15 per cent....
...“In the rose garden, the roses are only at 40 per cent of their potential because they’re tired with the soil [having depleted it of nutrients over time]....
...Hamming it up Harold Hamm’s plan to buy out North Dakota driller Continental highlights a different inflection point....
...Food costs, which make up around a quarter of Turkey’s inflation basket, rose 70 per cent year on year while energy costs rose almost 103 per cent....
...It was one thing for her to go along with Harold Wilson’s insistence that white Rhodesian resistance to independence with democracy was in effect an act of disloyalty not just to Her Majesty’s government...
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