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...BYD has also started to rebrand its US bus unit under a new name, Ride, to distance the business from its Chinese owners as it starts to bid for more public bus contracts in the US....
...Governors of Michigan, Georgia and Illinois, as well as West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, one of the IRA’s architects, were at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week extolling the virtues of the act...
...Chancellor Rishi Sunak, a former hedge fund executive and Goldman Sachs analyst, approved the novel expansion of the state as part of a Covid-19 support scheme launched last year....
...And with prices starting as low as $104,000, it’s a steal —less than half the average cost of a first-time buyer’s house in the UK....
...The emails included unexplained terms such as “snow white”....
...And only last year, the Booker Prize-winning author John Banville used a fictional Big House as the setting for his 1950s literary thriller Snow....
...On days when summer seems a distant memory, I wrap myself in layers of sweaters, scarves and perfume and take a long stroll in the park, watching the snow transform the landscape into a black and white Japanese...
...The abundance of snow-bright surfaces — partitions, walls, furniture, plinths, pedestals and balcony that borders the mezzanine storey overlooking the central gallery — makes a powerful and occasionally...
...Even as George Eliot’s cottage-dwelling Silas Marner of 1861 found a dead body in the snow and the new life of a baby at his hearth while his village of Raveloe celebrated Christmas, Charles Dickens redefined...
...Make a financial plan Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive, Virgin Money Clear goals and a plan can offer peace of mind and open up exciting opportunities....
...Trusts are able to avoid scrutiny under both US and international rules as long as the owner appoints a local trustee and a foreign “protector” to direct the trustees....
...The piece is partly a response to the writings of American psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920-1997). “Our consciousness makes it feel like we experience the world as something continuous,” Lee says....
...Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson, WW Norton, RRP£22/$29.95 Katznelson’s book offers the freshest perspective on the New Deal for many years....
...Each new day at the Berlin Film Festival has begun with a mass striptease. The audience arrives for the morning screening, padded and cladded against the snow, and then starts disrobing....
...On a crisp autumn morning, the Maxvalu supermarket and the Surprised Donkey hamburger chain are doing good business, but the owners of the mall have a problem....
...It has become the beneficiary of funding from the World Monuments Fund and I have written in the Financial Times about its appeal to restore the garden’s great series of statues, made and exported by John...
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