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...Last month, NWBO and its Reddit fans were rebuffed by a Manhattan court, which granted Citadel et al’s motion to dismiss the case. But there was a sting in the tail....
...Can voluntary markets overcome quality concerns? Will compliance markets do more to push business to decarbonise? Share your thoughts here....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...The problem, he added, is that “those acquisitions have not been proven to be high quality”....
...Yet even true sale vendors are obliged to offer refunds, returns and guarantees for a certain period of time after the sale to control for the incentive to offload low quality goods on unwitting consumers...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...Isis’s pretensions toward statehood have compelled it to attempt to take control of the entire process and cut out the middlemen....
...Computers only further that process by improving our collective memory....
...“We’ve known from the day that the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal was announced that Comcast intended to divest some subscribers, so this doesn’t change anything,” added Democratic senator Al Franken....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...The FT’s verdict: “Elegantly written, wryly observed, Rakoff’s memoir is a high-quality literary snack....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Why would the Chinese, Russians, Brazilians et al make the same mistake when it is very clearly in the public domain?...
...But the quality of security varied widely – creating weak points where the hackers have focused their attacks....
...The quality of the interaction is the emotional equivalent of junk food; it may fill you up but it hardly nourishes....
...And, as the new faces took their places next to Wintour, Menkes et al for the Dolce & Gabbana show, the Italian brand’s in-house cameras rolled, streamlining the event directly on to YouTube....
...“It’s difficult to maintain quality control of our projects, but we spend a lot of time making sure we reach the standards that the Americans insist upon,” says Mr Abd....
...It controls Future Brands, and owns a quarter of Maxxium, both of which distribute for Fortune and V&S....
...Other than Stone’s modest reforms, nothing seems to indicate rigorous due process....
...And this time it’s RBS et al on the back foot....
...Many of the originators to blame for poor quality control standards may not be held to account either – with several such lenders already in bankruptcy....
...And, frankly speaking, if you look at so-called dissent outside Saudi Arabia, it’s only Saad al-Fagih [a dissident in London]. That’s superb....
...Here, too, is the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney – from the making of The Lion King to Pirates of the Caribbean....
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...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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