Hints and tips:
...For a man with an old house and a weakness for home restoration TV programmes, Fairburn Tower stands as the sternest of reproofs....
...Here is the chief executive of another freight hauler, Old Dominion, commenting on a 4 per cent decline in revenue and a 12 per cent decline in volumes for the quarter: While our volumes stabilised during...
...Time-ravaged Old Masters translated into dresses and coats overlaid with silken strands that shivered as the models walked....
...One 24-year-old accountant in the eastern city of Nanjing, who asked not to be named, expects her income to be halved this year as the downturn bites....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...If anything, in old age, the temper of her speeches became warmer and more informal....
...Soon I realised that these old memoirs and biographies, many annotated in the 1960s and early 1970s, had probably been read back then by Dad as the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s independence had approached...
...Chris Brooks, senior vice-president for human resources at Old Dominion Freight Line, says he is aggressively recruiting for truck drivers to fill about 360 openings in the LA area and hundreds more across...
...As well as ride-sharing and food delivery duo Uber and Lyft — classed as trucking companies under the Global Industry Classification Standard — other new entrants will include Old Dominion Freight Line,...
...In later centuries, artists and Grand Tourists fell just as hard for Sicily’s limpid bays and coves and for its singular history, layering dominion upon dominion in a splendid cultural collage....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...Of Karl himself it was said that “you hope to meet a 30-year-old man, but you find the appearance of a 20-year-old youth who thinks, speaks and acts like a 10-year-old boy”....
...Freed’s street preacher marches past a showy 1956 Mercury Montclair, wrapped in an old coat and scarf and carrying a dog-eared Bible, an expression of spiritual transport on his face....
...Jumana Saleheen: The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’s policy cupboard is bare....
...So, bar going back to our advise about watching the trend and remaining v sceptical about the level, we’re a bit stuck on this old problem....
...Of India’s 130,000 railway bridges, about 25 per cent are more than a century old....
...Both YRC and Old Dominion Freight Line sounded similarly gloomy about December’s figures....
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...A large map of Africa on one wall is reminiscent of the type that 19th-century colonialists once stuck flags in as they expanded their dominions....
...v=87Fznz… — Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) March 3, 2013 (Viewer discretion is advised) So maybe time for a reality check....
...Negative bond yields, negative repo rates, and now… negative freight rates. At least route-specific ones....
...Old Dominion, a big carrier with 10,700 employees, has gained more than 40 per cent since September....
...“What if it were the Republic of Ireland v Slovenia?” “Ireland”. “Northern Ireland v Slovenia?” “Slovenia”. A Protestant later gave me the reverse set of replies....
...What serendipity that you’re awake too and your old man’s asleep. Has he noticed that his wife is in the zone?...
...many analysts who have talked up in the last fortnight the significance of the plunge in the Baltic Dry Index — it’s down 40 per cent from its record peak in November — are long-term, serious students of freight...
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