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...For high stakes applications, that’s going to be the case....
...The Twin Towers (designed by Minoru Yamasaki) were themselves dismissed as boring — the high point, perhaps, from the high-point of late-modern 1970s banality....
...The vistas transform into grassy plains, with pampas covering swaths of open land, hills and tall peaks, 15 of which are more than 2,000m high....
...In 1967, when this was still called plain Great Jackson Street, social life revolved around the unassuming comforts of the Boatman’s Home, a two-storey red-brick pub that could have been the model for the...
...The Edwardian pile on High Holborn was formerly part of the Renaissance chain....
...Carolus guilders became plain guilders, and then the euro in 2002. Most other bonds of this age are now just curios collected by financial history buffs....
...My hotels are gloriously removed from the multi-storied concrete of Canarian cliché....
...This is something very different: the opposite of high-tech, it looks deliberately simplistic, cavelike....
...But here, this thing is rather wonderfully hiding in plain sight within spitting distance of doughty old Buckingham Palace....
...(4) The UK’s budget outcomes of late have proved better than expected, and the UK government, ahead of a likely general election next year, has a more concrete fiscal loosening plan, versus in the euro...
...And over the years academics have decomposed equity market returns into various “factors”, which practitioners have used to build investment strategies that supposedly improve on good old plain beta....
...Rather than angle a piece of curb into the concrete, as is typical, the studio created a more elegant solution, a single curved stone....
...I snuck into that show by putting on my usher’s uniform and pretending that I was on duty, hiding in plain sight....
...The set was spartan, by Prada standards, its burnished concrete floors broken up by red-orange pillars that were crowned with white lilies....
...The building was concrete, three stories high, no windows. Further down was a dumpster and an old parking lot overrun by knee-high weeds....
...Steel from demolitions is typically melted down and recycled, often abroad, using high-energy processes, Nichol explains....
...They married with minimal fanfare and spent months house-hunting amid the sky-high interest rates of the late 1970s....
...It is now pretty much top of any tourist agenda, a kind of high-fashion ghetto supplemented by, rather oddly, a Burger King....
...The Lower Hall, with its sturdy pillars and vaulted ceilings, is plain speak in comparison to the Stone Hall....
...In surveillance capitalism, they are in plain sight yet we just don’t seem to care. But we must learn to care....
...Other manufacturing companies imported slab, semi-finished flat chunks of steel, as well as rebar, rods used to reinforce concrete in construction projects....
...Consider a concrete example. The iShares high-yield bond ETF is yielding 5 per cent right now. The underlying bonds have an average maturity of about five years....
...Many former residents now have large air-conditioned houses on the plains....
...Looking at breadth in the abstract (ie, “X per cent of stocks in index Y are Z per cent off their highs,” or similar) might be less useful than looking at it in concrete terms, however....
...Then, over the past decade, something strange happened: Garzón’s abandoned homes opened up as high-end restaurants, wine bars and art galleries....
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