Hints and tips:
...The head of V.Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for vessels passing through the Black Sea, off Ukraine’s coast, a region with global importance for food supplies...
...The hip Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, which gave birth to the “slow-food” movement in 1971, is not an obvious place to shoot the breeze about the future of American socialism....
...A former BP worker summed up the reaction: “Employees were required to take a large proportion of their total pay in shares each year and to retain them to demonstrate loyalty....
...‘Takeout financing’ is an accepted international practice of releasing long term funds for financing infrastructure projects....
...Mr Ali and others say that is beginning to change, with increasing numbers of Saudis working in restaurants and hotels, as taxi drivers or as tellers in supermarkets (some 30 per cent of McDonald’s employees...
...Then the collection: everyone reached deep into their wallets to volunteer funds for the local Christmas food drive....
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