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...Brendan Buck, a former House Republican aide now at Seven Letter, a consultancy, said McCarthy was “mostly likely to get there, but I sure can’t guarantee it” with just days left to go....
...Oliver St John Gogarty, an aspiring poet and the inspiration for Buck Mulligan, had befriended Joyce in 1902....
...“The walls are closing in on her,” said Brendan Buck, a Republican strategist. “She may have put a good spin on her loss, but Haley is about to face incredible pressure to drop out....
The two banks are the biggest winners on Wall Street as energy industry bucks M&A downturn
...He added that the inquiry would be led by James Comer, chair of the House oversight committee, and Jim Jordan, chair of the House judiciary committee, who have both been leading probes into the business...
...“Certainly it will rile up the base, but absent some bombshell . . . this is something of a gift to the president politically,” Buck said. Some Democrats mocked the inquiry....
...In 1980, Kerry James Marshall painted a carbon-black silhouette of a face, only the whites of the eyes and gleaming teeth visible....
...“The way to maximise delivery is to invest consistently in marketing,” said James Edwardes Jones at RBC Capital Markets....
...“Wall Street is really good at selling stuff, they’ll sell anything they can make a buck on.”...
...He’s trying to play that archvillain,” Buck said. “[But] at some point people will stop seeing him as the most likely alternative if he shows no momentum....
...An object I would never part with is a painting, Hedgery, by James Metsoja....
...Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican, said he was “appalled by the debt ceiling surrender”. “The bottom line is that the US will have $35tn of debt in January 2025....
...“James obviously rates his intellect very highly, he was a very good capital markets banker,” said one former colleague....
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...In London, Tobias Buck (Jerusalem 2007-2012) was in charge of Sunday’s coverage....
.... £3 for 330ml, counterculturedrinks.com, kombuchawarehouse.com The A-list enterprise Brad Pitt was among the founders of California-based B-Corp Enroot, which supports the James Beard Foundation’s women...
...scandal of infected blood, in which up to 30,000 people contracted HIV or hepatitis C after receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, is a dreadful example of governments passing the buck...
...Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon’s pay fell almost 30 per cent to $25mn for 2022, while Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman had his pay cut 10 per cent to $31.5mn....
...So when visiting young buck Charles Marlow (Freddie Fox), mistaking his host for an innkeeper, starts issuing high-handed demands, Hardcastle bristles like a hedgehog....
...Round on the Links The link was elements of a traditional British Christmas Day Turkey Family The King’s Speech Telly Savalas Bucks Fizz Cracker Santa Maria Blue Stockings Port of Spain The Hunger...
...Johnson & Johnson’s deal bucks a broader trend in merger and acquisition activity across the globe, which has slowed down dramatically since the start of the year as the war in Ukraine and tighter monetary...
...So, on that topic, I'm interested in what you think about the personnel change from Braverman to James Cleverly at the Home Office because the buck actually now stops with Cleverly in terms of this immigration...
...Goldman Sachs has hired HSBC senior banker James Keller for a private debt role, Bloomberg reports....
...Buck Mason’s are made in a soft cotton and have a curved hem that looks great untucked....
...The pay increase bucks the broader trend among big US banks, which tended to either cut or reduce pay to their chief executives in 2022 amid a slowdown in profits....
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