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...The government said it was committed to supporting companies as they adapt to new border checks, adding that its “engagement with businesses in advance of these checks ha[d] been extensive”....
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...Bain also pointed to lower attrition when offering some London consultants redundancy with six months’ pay, partly paid temporary leave, or an option to relocate to one of the firm’s offices abroad....
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...When it came to being in a band, I’d go and see a lot of bands and artists, and I’d take away things I didn’t want to do or be: reverse mentorship. At art school, a teacher called John Ross....
...Raquel had not considered “what an Ivy League college would be like. She’d been too grateful for the opportunity to have expectations.”...
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...Napoleon, inspecting the factory in 1806 ,was so impressed that he awarded him the Légion d’honneur....
...“I’d rather stay away from things that lose their value as soon as I buy them,” she said....
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