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...The group bought about 60 songs written by Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill, the duo behind the two Houston smash hits, for between $50mn and $100mn, according to people familiar with the matter....
...“smash and grab!”....
...This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Keir Starmer’s bid to smash the class ceiling’ [MUSIC PLAYING] Sarah NevilleWe’ve got waiting lists at record levels....
...His name is Ron Yan, and if you visit and sit at the bar you can watch him smash cucumbers with a hard pan, wince at the sound, then laugh....
...Foreign Secretary James Cleverly hit back at his critics....
...Yet there is no doubting that it can also be attended by a sense of carpe diem, both to seek the approval of the missing godhead and smash the frame of reality that stole them....
...Last year, Shari renamed the company Paramount and enjoyed the glow of a box-office smash with Top Gun: Maverick. Still, the company faces serious competition from better-positioned rivals....
...I mean, I can understand, Miranda, what Starmer’s trying to do here in presentational terms, bringing attention to the criminal justice aspect, talking tough, saying I’m gonna smash the gangs....
...On the business front, Williams joins a generation of athletes building empires on the side before leaving their sport, such as LeBron James and Tom Brady....
...The original Top Gun, released in 1986, was both a box-office smash and a Reagan-era hymn to American aerial and naval might....
...James Max is a radio presenter and property expert. The views expressed are personal. Twitter: @thejamesmax...
...Marc FilippinoNow, James, these sanctions would only go into effect if Russia invades Ukraine, right? James PolitiYes....
...(Did your mother sometimes smash plates in desperation? Did your father really drop someone because he used the word “mishmash”?)...
...Plus, the FT’s eastern European correspondent, James Shotter, explains how Poland has become one of the biggest thorns in the EU’s side....
...In Mellors’ novel it’s the relationships that smash, shatter and reconfigure. The titular characters, Cleo and Frank, meet in the elevator of a New York warehouse on New Year’s Eve....
...Now, Nasa is preparing to smash a spacecraft into a faraway asteroid at 23,000kph to divert its path....
...to counter the ETIM, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, exhorted counterparts from the central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan this year to co-operate to smash...
...“Thoroughly smash the reactionary bourgeois line!” China under the CCP has been a bonfire for political ambitions....
...Art of the deal As James wrote last week in “Our Take”, Hong Kong’s start-up scene is showing real signs of improvement....
Appointment by Joe Biden would smash glass ceiling at department that has never been run by a woman
...This gutting exhibition summons a roster of current stars (Lorna Simpson, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, plus many more) and plenty of work from the past decade....
...One red wall Tory MP said: “We have a really decent chance to smash Labour.” Another said: “The choice of our candidate will be key. We need some local who gets the area....
...Rewatch Richard Curtis’s 1994 smash hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (as I do on a regular basis) and you’d be forgiven for thinking that every wedding ceremony in the UK is full to bursting with men dressed...
...Now, the top two companies are Allegro, worth more than twice as much as any other member of the index, and CD Projekt, the games maker behind the smash hit Witcher video games....
...In It’s a Wonderful Life, the would-be couple throw rocks to smash the windows of the derelict house that will one day be theirs....
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