Hints and tips:
...“This, of course, is a joke in any civilised country, but the Swiss authorities seem to enjoy these petty tactics of frustration,” one claimant told the FT....
...“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense....
...This follows a disturbing pattern of this administration putting petty grievances ahead of the health and safety of the American people,” she said....
...Moreover, their vulnerability to petty crime, teenage pregnancies and depression increases sharply when schools close....
...It often originates in petty, resolvable disputes: one man flirts with another’s girlfriend, owes him money or disrespects him....
...Jay Inslee, the Washington governor, is also mulling a campaign. 2020 is already set to become the longest presidential campaign on record. Ted Cruz kicked off the 2016 race in March 2015....
...The two presidents have traded petty insults but Philip argues that Mr Kim now has everything he wants. He has outsmarted Mr Trump at almost every turn....
...Springsteen’s song has been used — or, rather, abused — as an uplifting, rallying anthem for America by politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, yet the song itself tells the story of a petty...
...Mr Obama set a high bar for himself in 2009, when he proclaimed his election an end to “petty grievances and false promises” and urged the US to change with the rest of the world....
...Ann Patchett’s 2001 best-selling novel thus seems fated to exist in an operatic incarnation one way or another (Santa Fe Opera’s commission of a version by Aaron Jay Kernis was shelved “indefinitely” in...
...“I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell/ I’m a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well,” Jay-Z brags in “U Don’t Know”....
...The classic words on this were uttered in 1931 by the Chief Justice Hughes about Jay Near, the publisher of a Minnesota scandal sheet....
...However, Scott Petty of Dimension Data, an IT services group based in South Africa, argues that social networking sites, used carefully, are both valid and necessary business tools....
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